Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ Pro­ceed­ings are ini­ti­ated by an ap­plic­a­tion for con­cili­ation. The ap­plic­a­tion may be filed in the forms provided for by Art­icle 130 or or­ally for the re­cord be­fore the con­cili­ation au­thor­ity.

² The ap­plic­a­tion for con­cili­ation must identi­fy the op­pos­ing party and in­clude the pray­ers for re­lief and a de­scrip­tion of the mat­ter in dis­pute.

³ The con­cili­ation au­thor­ity shall serve the op­pos­ing party with the ap­plic­a­tion im­me­di­ately and at the same time sum­mon the parties to a hear­ing.

⁴ In the dis­putes men­tioned in Art­icle 200, it may as an ex­cep­tion or­der the ex­change of writ­ten sub­mis­sions if it is con­sid­er­ing a de­cision pro­pos­al¹³³ un­der Art­icle 210 or a de­cision un­der Art­icle 212.