Swiss Civil Procedure Code
(Civil Procedure Code, CPC)

¹ The re­quest for the third-party ac­tion to be ad­mit­ted must be made with the an­swers or the reply in the main pro­ceed­ings. The no­ti­fy­ing party shall set out the pray­ers to be raised against the third party to­geth­er with a brief state­ment of the grounds. They shall not be quan­ti­fied if they re­late to the same con­trac­tu­al per­form­ance to which the no­ti­fied party is ob­liged in the main pro­ceed­ings.⁵⁴

² The court shall give the op­pos­ing party and the third party the op­por­tun­ity to re­spond.

³ If the third-party ac­tion is ad­mit­ted, the court shall de­term­ine the time and ex­tent of the re­lated ex­change of writ­ten sub­mis­sions, sub­ject to Art­icle 125.

⁴ An ob­jec­tion may be filed against the de­cision to ad­mit the third-party ac­tion.