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

¹ The au­thor­ity may sus­pend the pro­ceed­ings with the con­sent of the parties in or­der that the parties may agree on the con­tent of the rul­ing. The agree­ment should state that the parties waive their right of ap­peal and how the parties in­tend to al­loc­ate the costs.

² In or­der to en­cour­age an agree­ment, the au­thor­ity may ap­point a neut­ral and suit­ably qual­i­fied nat­ur­al per­son to be a me­di­at­or.

³ The me­di­at­or shall be bound only by the law and his man­date from the au­thor­ity. He may take evid­ence; for in­spec­tions, re­ports from ex­perts and the ex­am­in­a­tion of wit­nesses, he shall re­quire pri­or au­thor­isa­tion from the au­thor­ity.

⁴ The au­thor­ity shall make the agree­ment the con­tent of its rul­ing, un­less the agree­ment is de­fect­ive in terms of Art­icle 49.

⁵ If an agree­ment is reached, the au­thor­ity shall not charge any pro­ced­ur­al fees. If no agree­ment is reached, the au­thor­ity may dis­pense with im­pos­ing the costs of me­di­ation on the parties, provided the in­terests in­volved jus­ti­fy this.

⁶ A party may at any time re­quest that the sus­pen­sion of the pro­ceed­ings be re­voked.