Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ If no agree­ment is reached, the con­cili­ation au­thor­ity re­cords this fact and grants au­thor­isa­tion to pro­ceed:

a.

to the land­lord in cases where a rent in­crease is chal­lenged;

b.

to the plaintiff in all oth­er cases.

² The au­thor­isa­tion to pro­ceed con­tains:

a.

the names and ad­dresses of the parties and their rep­res­ent­at­ives, if any;

b.

the plaintiff's pray­ers for re­lief, a de­scrip­tion of the mat­ter in dis­pute, and any coun­ter­claim;

c.

the date of the ini­ti­ation of the con­cili­ation pro­ceed­ings;

d.

the de­cision on the costs of the con­cili­ation pro­ceed­ings;

e.

the date of the au­thor­isa­tion to pro­ceed;

f.

the seal of the con­cili­ation au­thor­ity.

³ The plaintiff is en­titled to file the ac­tion in court with­in three months of au­thor­isa­tion to pro­ceed be­ing gran­ted.

⁴ The dead­line is 30 days in dis­putes over the ten­ancy and lease of res­id­en­tial and busi­ness prop­erty or the lease of ag­ri­cul­tur­al prop­erty. Oth­er stat­utory or ju­di­cial fil­ing dead­lines are re­served.