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

¹ In or­der to en­force oth­er rul­ings, the au­thor­ity shall take the fol­low­ing meas­ures:

a.

sub­sti­tute per­form­ance by the au­thor­ity is­su­ing the rul­ing it­self or by a third party in­struc­ted at the ex­pense of the party li­able; the costs must be de­term­ined by spe­cial rul­ing;

b.

dir­ect en­force­ment against the party li­able in per­son or against his prop­erty;

c.

pro­sec­u­tion in the event that an­oth­er fed­er­al act provides for a pen­alty;

d.

pro­sec­u­tion for con­tempt un­der Art­icle 292 of the Crim­in­al Code⁸¹ if no oth­er crim­in­al law pro­vi­sion ap­plies.

² Be­fore the au­thor­ity takes any en­force­ment meas­ure, it shall give no­tice there­of to the party li­able and al­low him a suit­able peri­od in which to com­ply, in­dic­at­ing the stat­utory pen­al­ties in the cases re­ferred to in para­graph 1 let­ters c and d.

³ In the cases re­ferred to in para­graph 1 let­ters a and b, it may dis­pense with giv­ing no­tice of the en­force­ment meas­ure and al­low­ing a peri­od for com­pli­ance if there is a risk in any delay.