Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹The fol­low­ing re­quire­ments must be met when us­ing elec­tron­ic au­dio or video equip­ment:

a.

The trans­mis­sion of sound and im­ages between all per­sons par­ti­cip­at­ing in the pro­ced­ur­al act takes place sim­ul­tan­eously.

b.

The ex­am­in­a­tion of wit­nesses, ques­tion­ing of parties, giv­ing of evid­ence and per­son­al hear­ings shall be re­cor­ded; oth­er hear­ings may ex­cep­tion­ally be re­cor­ded on re­quest or ex of­fi­cio, un­less the sole pur­pose of a hear­ing is to freely dis­cuss the mat­ter in dis­pute or to at­tempt to reach an agree­ment.

c.

Data pro­tec­tion and data se­cur­ity are guar­an­teed.

² With the con­sent of the per­sons con­cerned, video trans­mis­sion may be dis­pensed with by way of ex­cep­tion if there is par­tic­u­lar ur­gency or oth­er spe­cial cir­cum­stances in the in­di­vidu­al case.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the tech­nic­al re­quire­ments and the re­quire­ments for data pro­tec­tion and data se­cur­ity.