Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ The pro­posed judg­ment is deemed to be ac­cep­ted and has the ef­fect of a bind­ing de­cision if none of the parties re­jects it with­in 20 days of writ­ten no­ti­fic­a­tion to the parties. The re­jec­tion needs no state­ment of grounds.

² After re­ceiv­ing the re­jec­tion, the con­cili­ation au­thor­ity shall grant au­thor­isa­tion to pro­ceed:

a.

to the re­ject­ing party in mat­ters un­der Art­icle 210 para­graph 1 let­ter b;

b.

to the plaintiff in all oth­er cases.

³ If in mat­ters un­der Art­icle 210 para­graph 1 let­ter b the ac­tion is not filed in time, the pro­posed judg­ment is deemed to be ac­cep­ted and has the ef­fect of a bind­ing de­cision.

⁴ The parties must be ad­vised in the pro­posed judg­ment of its ef­fects in ac­cord­ance with para­graphs 1 to 3 above.