Federal Act
on the Protection of the Swiss Coat of Arms and Other Public Signs
(Coat of Arms Protection Act, CAPA)

¹ Coats of arms, flags and oth­er for­eign state em­blems or signs that could be con­fused with them, as well as na­tion­al fig­ur­at­ive and word signs of for­eign states, may only be used by the state to which they be­long; Art­icle 16 re­mains re­served.

² The state en­titled to use the signs un­der para­graph 1 may use them to the ex­tent that such use is neither mis­lead­ing nor con­trary to pub­lic policy, mor­al­ity or ap­plic­able law.

³ Coats of arms, flags and oth­er em­blems of oth­er for­eign pub­lic bod­ies, in par­tic­u­lar of com­munes, may be used to the ex­tent that such use is neither mis­lead­ing nor con­trary to pub­lic or­der, mor­al­ity or ap­plic­able law.

⁴ Where signs un­der para­graphs 1 and 3 are un­der­stood by the rel­ev­ant pub­lic to be an in­dic­a­tion of the geo­graph­ic­al ori­gin of goods and ser­vices, they are con­sidered to be in­dic­a­tions of source with­in the mean­ing of the TmPA⁸ and are sub­ject to Art­icle 48 para­graph 5 and Art­icle 49 para­graph 4 TmPA.