Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ Sim­pli­fied pro­ceed­ings ap­ply in fin­an­cial dis­putes with a value in dis­pute not ex­ceed­ing 30,000 francs.

² They ap­ply re­gard­less of the amount in dis­pute in the case of:⁸¹

a.

dis­putes un­der the Gender Equal­ity Act of 24 March 1995⁸²;

b.⁸³

dis­putes con­cern­ing vi­ol­ence, threats or stalk­ing pur­su­ant to Art­icle 28b CC⁸⁴ or con­cern­ing elec­tron­ic mon­it­or­ing pur­su­ant to Art­icle 28c CC;

c.

dis­putes con­cern­ing the ten­ancy and lease of res­id­en­tial and busi­ness prop­erty or the lease of ag­ri­cul­tur­al prop­erty if they con­cern the de­pos­it of rent, pro­tec­tion against ab­us­ive rent, pro­tec­tion against ter­min­a­tion, or the ex­ten­sion of the rent­al re­la­tion­ship;

d.

dis­putes con­cern­ing the right of ac­cess to per­son­al data provided by the Fed­er­al Act of 19 June 1992⁸⁵ on Data Pro­tec­tion;

e.

dis­putes con­cern­ing the Par­ti­cip­a­tion Act of 17 Decem­ber 1993⁸⁶;

f.

dis­putes con­cern­ing in­sur­ance sup­ple­ment­ary to the so­cial health in­sur­ance un­der the Fed­er­al Act of 18 March 1994⁸⁷ on Health In­sur­ance.

³ The sim­pli­fied pro­ceed­ings do not ap­ply to dis­putes be­fore the court of sole can­ton­al in­stance in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 5 and 8 and be­fore the Com­mer­cial Court in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6.