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

¹ The ap­pel­late au­thor­it­ies are:

a.

the Fed­er­al Coun­cil un­der Art­icles 72 ff.;

b.⁸⁶

the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court un­der Art­icles 31–34 of the Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court Act of 17 June 2005⁸⁷;

c.⁸⁸

oth­er au­thor­it­ies that are des­ig­nated as ap­pel­late au­thor­it­ies by a fed­er­al act;

d.⁸⁹

the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity if an ap­peal to the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court is in­com­pet­ent and fed­er­al law does not des­ig­nate any oth­er ap­pel­late au­thor­ity.

² If an ap­pel­late au­thor­ity not re­spons­ible for the fi­nal de­cision has is­sued an in­struc­tion in an in­di­vidu­al case that a lower in­stance should de­cide or has is­sued that in­stance with in­struc­tions on the con­tent of that de­cision, the rul­ing must be re­ferred dir­ectly to the next highest ap­pel­late au­thor­ity; at­ten­tion must be drawn to the fore­go­ing in the in­struc­tions on leg­al rem­ed­ies.⁹⁰

³ ...⁹¹

⁴ In­struc­tions that an ap­pel­late au­thor­ity is­sues if it de­cides in the case and refers the same back to the lower in­stance are not re­garded as in­struc­tions with­in the mean­ing of para­graph 2.