Federal Act
on Administrative Procedure
(Administrative Procedure Act, APA)¹

This Act does not ap­ply to:

a.

the pro­ced­ures of au­thor­it­ies in terms of Art­icle 1 para­graph 2 let­ter e if a dir­ect ap­peal to a fed­er­al au­thor­ity against their rul­ings is in­ad­miss­ible;

b.

in re­la­tion to fed­er­al per­son­nel, the pro­ced­ure in the first in­stance re­lat­ing to the es­tab­lish­ment of an em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship, to the pro­mo­tion of fed­er­al per­son­nel, and to em­ploy­ment re­lated dir­ect­ives to fed­er­al per­son­nel¹⁶ and the pro­ced­ure for the au­thor­isa­tion of the pro­sec­u­tion of fed­er­al per­son­nel;

c.

ad­min­is­trat­ive crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings and re­lated crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tion pro­ceed­ings;

d.¹⁷

the pro­ced­ure for the ad­min­is­tra­tion of mil­it­ary justice in­clud­ing the ad­min­is­tra­tion of mil­it­ary dis­cip­line, the pro­ced­ure in mil­it­ary com­mand mat­ters in terms of Art­icle 37 as well as the pro­ced­ure in terms of Art­icles 38 and 39 of the Armed Forces Act of 3 Feb­ru­ary 1995¹⁸,¹⁹ ...²⁰;

d^bis.²¹

the pro­ced­ure in so­cial in­sur­ance mat­ters, provided the Fed­er­al Act of 6 Oc­to­ber 2000²² on the Gen­er­al Pro­vi­sions of So­cial In­sur­ance law is ap­plic­able;

e.²³

the pro­ced­ure for cus­toms clear­ance;

e^bis.²⁴

...

f.

pro­ceed­ings in the first in­stance in oth­er ad­min­is­trat­ive mat­ters, if due to their nature they must be dealt with by an im­me­di­ately en­force­able rul­ing.