Official collection of federal law

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In the Official Compilation of Federal Law ( Official Compilation , AS 2) style of be in accordance. Swiss Federal Law of 18 June 2004 on the collection of federal law and the Federal Gazette (Publications Law, PublG) published: The Federal Constitution , the federal laws , regulations of the Federal Assembly and of the Federal Council, the other legislative decrees of the federal authorities and the other bodies to which federal tasks are assigned, as well as various forms of federal resolutions . International agreements , resolutions of international law (Art. 3 PublG) and agreements between the Confederation and the cantons are also published in the AS .

Publication in the AS takes place electronically and in print on a weekly basis and usually at least five days before the relevant decrees come into force (Art. 7 PublG). The official languages ​​of the Swiss Confederation are used for publication , whereby the three versions are equally binding (Art. 14 PublG). As a rule, decrees only become legally effective when they are published in the AS; the extraordinary announcement is only provided as an exception. The legal fiction of negative legal force applies , according to which the edicts published in the AS are generally known.

The AS is structured chronologically ; Decrees can be cited using the corresponding year and page numbers (for example AS  2004  2081 stands for the publication of the changes to the Bodensee-Schifffahrts -ordnung (BSO) ). In contrast to this, the Systematic Collection of Federal Law (SR) is the collection of decrees, international treaties and resolutions as well as contracts between the Confederation and the cantons that have been published in the AS and are still in force. The cantonal constitutions are only published in the SR .

In 2016, the Federal Council spoke out in favor of retaining the Official Collection as the authoritative publication for federal law and not switching to the Systematic Legal Collection. The effort for such a change would be great. In addition, no cases of legal misjudgments are known because someone relied on a wrong SR text.

history

From 1848 to 1926, the official collection of federal laws and ordinances of the Swiss Confederation appeared irregularly in a total of 79 volumes.

From 1927 to 1947 it was published weekly as a supplement to the Federal Gazette in 21 volumes under the title Eidgenössische Gesetzsammlung .

From 1948 to 1987 it was called the Collection of Federal Laws .

Official collection of federal law has been the valid name since 1988 .

The AS has been offered on the Internet since September 1, 1998. Issues before September 1998 are digitized and available on a website of the Swiss Federal Archives .

Since January 1, 2016, the electronic and no longer the printed version of the Official Collection (AS) and the Federal Gazette (BBl) have been legally binding.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. SR 170.512
  2. AS  2004  2081 (PDF; 90 kB)
  3. The Federal Council: The Official Compilation of Federal Law remains the authoritative publication of federal laws. In: www.admin.ch. Retrieved October 20, 2016 .
  4. ^ Bibliographical entry in Helveticat. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  5. ^ Bibliographical entry in Helveticat. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  6. ^ Bibliographical entry in Helveticat. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  7. ^ Bibliographical entry in Helveticat. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  8. ^ Federal Chancellery: AS - Federal Law. In: admin.ch. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .
  9. Online official publications . Swiss Federal Archives. Retrieved March 5, 2019.
  10. Change of primacy in official publications. In: www.admin.ch. Retrieved October 6, 2016 .