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

¹ Rul­ings are de­cisions of the au­thor­it­ies in in­di­vidu­al cases that are based on the pub­lic law of the Con­fed­er­a­tion and have as their sub­ject mat­ter the fol­low­ing:

a.

the es­tab­lish­ment, amend­ment or with­draw­al of rights or ob­lig­a­tions;

a.

a find­ing of the ex­ist­ence, non-ex­ist­ence or ex­tent of rights or ob­lig­a­tions;

c.

the re­jec­tion of ap­plic­a­tions for the es­tab­lish­ment, amend­ment, with­draw­al or find­ing of rights or ob­lig­a­tions, or the dis­missal of such ap­plic­a­tions without en­ter­ing in­to the sub­stance of the case.

² Rul­ings are also en­force­ment meas­ures (Art. 41 para. 1 let. a and b), in­ter­im or­ders (Art. 45), de­cisions on ob­jec­tions (Art. 30 para. 2 let. b, 46 let. b, and 74 let. b), ap­peal de­cisions (Art. 61 and 70), de­cisions in a re­view (Art. 68) and on ex­plan­at­ory state­ments (Art. 69).²⁵

³ De­clar­a­tions made by au­thor­it­ies on the re­jec­tion or rais­ing of claims that must be pur­sued by tak­ing leg­al pro­ceed­ings do not con­sti­tute rul­ings.