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

¹ The au­thor­ity shall no­ti­fy the parties of its rul­ings in writ­ing.

^1bis With the con­sent of the party, no­ti­fic­a­tion of a rul­ing may be giv­en by elec­tron­ic means. The rul­ing must carry an elec­tron­ic sig­na­ture in ac­cord­ance with the Fed­er­al Act of 18 March 2016⁷¹ on Elec­tron­ic Sig­na­tures. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late:

a.

the form of sig­na­ture to be used;

b.

the format of the rul­ing and its ac­com­pa­ny­ing doc­u­ments;

c.

the form and meth­od of trans­mis­sion;

d.

the time at which no­ti­fic­a­tion is deemed to have been giv­en.⁷²

² The au­thor­ity may verbally no­ti­fy the parties present of in­ter­im or­ders, but it must con­firm the rul­ing to them in writ­ing if any party re­quests this at the time; the peri­od al­lowed for ap­ply­ing for leg­al rem­ed­ies in this case be­gins from the time of writ­ten con­firm­a­tion.⁷³