Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

Sum­mary pro­ceed­ings may be brought in par­tic­u­lar in the fol­low­ing cases:

a.

Gen­er­al pro­vi­sions:

1.

de­pos­it of an ex­pired power of at­tor­ney with the court (Art. 36 para. 1 CO¹⁰⁴),

2.

set­ting a reas­on­able dead­line to provide se­cur­ity (Art. 83 para. 2 CO),

3.

de­pos­it and sale of an ob­ject for the event of an ob­li­gee's de­fault (Art. 92 para. 2 and 93 para. 2 CO),

4.

au­thor­isa­tion for per­form­ance by a third party (Art. 98 CO),

5.

set­ting a time lim­it to per­form a con­tract (Art. 107 para. 1¹⁰⁵ CO),

6.

de­pos­it of an amount in dis­pute (Art. 168 para. 1 CO);

b.

Spe­cif­ic con­tracts:

1.

des­ig­na­tion of an ex­pert to veri­fy the cal­cu­la­tion of the profit share or com­mis­sions (Art. 322a para. 2 and 322c para. 2 CO),

2.

set­ting a dead­line to provide se­cur­ity in the event that a salary is at risk (Art. 337a CO),

3.

set­ting a time lim­it in the case of non-con­trac­tu­al per­form­ance of work (Art. 366 para. 2 CO),

4.

ap­point­ment of an ex­pert to in­spect the work (Art. 367 CO),

5.

set­ting a time lim­it for the pub­lic­a­tion of a new edi­tion of a lit­er­ary or artist­ic work (Art. 383 para. 3 CO),

6.

re­turn of an ob­ject held by an of­fi­cial re­ceiv­er (Art. 480 CO),

7.

as­sess­ing the ex­tent of cov­er by pledge in the case of joint and sev­er­al surety (Art. 496 para. 2 CO),

8.

aban­don­ment of debt en­force­ment pro­ceed­ings against the guar­ant­or fur­nish­ing real se­cur­ity (Art. 501 para. 2 CO),

9.

pro­vi­sion of se­cur­ity by the prin­cip­al debt­or and re­lease from li­ab­il­ity (Art. 506 CO);

c.

Com­pany law and the com­mer­cial re­gister:¹⁰⁶

1.

pro­vi­sion­al with­draw­al of the au­thor­ity to rep­res­ent (Art 565 para. 2, 603 and 767 para. 1 CO),

2.

ap­point­ment of a joint rep­res­ent­at­ive (Art. 690 para. 1, 764 para. 2, 792 sec. 1 and 847 para. 4 CO),

3.

ap­point­ment, dis­missal and re­place­ment of li­quid­at­ors (Art. 583 para. 2, 619, 740, 741, 770, 826 para. 2 and 913 CO),

4.

sale at an over­all sale price and mod­al­it­ies of sale of im­mov­able prop­erty (Art. 585 para. 3 and 619 CO),

5.

ap­point­ment of an ex­pert to veri­fy the profit and loss ac­count and the bal­ance sheet of the lim­ited part­ner­ship (Art. 600 para. 3 CO),

6.¹⁰⁷

al­low­ing a peri­od of time in the case of in­suf­fi­cient num­ber of mem­bers or lack of cor­por­ate bod­ies (Art. 731b, 819, 908 and 941a CO),

7.¹⁰⁸

or­der­ing the dis­clos­ure of in­form­a­tion to cred­it­ors, share­hold­ers and mem­bers of a lim­ited li­ab­il­ity com­pany and to mem­bers of a co­oper­at­ive (Art. 697b, 802 para. 4, 857 para. 3 and 958e CO),

8.¹⁰⁹

a spe­cial in­vest­ig­a­tion (Art. 697c–697h^bis CO),

9.¹¹⁰

con­ven­ing a gen­er­al meet­ing, put­ting an item on the agenda, tabling mo­tions with short ex­plan­a­tions in the in­vit­a­tion to the gen­er­al meet­ing (Art. 699 para. 5, 699b para. 4, 805 para. 5 nos 2 and 3 and 881 para. 3 CO),

10.¹¹¹ des­ig­na­tion of a rep­res­ent­at­ive of the com­pany or the co­oper­at­ive in the event of a res­ol­u­tion of the gen­er­al meet­ing be­ing chal­lenged by the man­age­ment (Art. 706a para. 2, 808c and 891 para. 1 CO),

11.¹¹² ap­point­ment and re­mov­al of the aud­it­ors (Art. 731b,819 and 908 CO),

12.

de­pos­it of amounts of claims in case of li­quid­a­tion (Art. 744, 770, 826 para. 2 and 913 CO),

13.¹¹³ re­mov­al of the dir­ect­ors and aud­it­ors of a co­oper­at­ive (Art. 890 para. 2 CO),

14.¹¹⁴ re­in­state­ment of a de­leted leg­al en­tity in the com­mer­cial re­gister (Art. 935 CO),

15.¹¹⁵ or­der­ing the dis­sol­u­tion of the com­pany and its li­quid­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions on bank­ruptcy (Art. 731b, 819 und 908 CO);

d.

Se­cur­it­ies law:

1.

can­cel­la­tion of se­cur­it­ies (Art. 981 CO),

2.

pro­hib­i­tion of pay­ing a bill of ex­change and de­pos­it of the amount pay­able un­der the bill (Art. 1072 CO),

3.

lapse of the au­thor­ity con­ferred by the cred­it­ors meet­ing on the rep­res­ent­at­ive of the com­munity of cred­it­ors (Art. 1162 para. 4 CO),

4.

con­ven­ing a cred­it­ors meet­ing on the ap­plic­a­tion by the bond cred­it­ors (Art. 1165 para. 3 and 4 CO).