Swiss Civil Code

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion is re­spons­ible for su­per­vising child ad­op­tion agency activ­it­ies.

² Any per­son en­ga­ging in such activ­it­ies pro­fes­sion­ally or in con­nec­tion with his or her pro­fes­sion­al activ­it­ies re­quires an of­fi­cial li­cence; this does not ap­ply to agency ser­vices rendered by the child pro­tec­tion au­thor­ity.³²³

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil en­acts the im­ple­ment­ing reg­u­la­tions and de­term­ines the man­ner in which the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for pla­cing chil­dren in foster care with a view to sub­sequent ad­op­tion are to be in­volved in as­sess­ing ful­fil­ment of the re­quire­ments for ap­prov­al of ad­op­tion and in car­ry­ing out the ne­ces­sary su­per­vi­sion.

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