Commentaries: Art. 111

If an initiative is endorsed, the relevant committee of the council to which the initiative was submitted shall prepare a bill within two years.
If the author of an initiative or the request for the preparation of an initiative is not a member of the committee, he or she may participate in the preliminary examination in an advisory capacity at the meetings of the committee of his or her council.¹
The report explaining the committee bill to the Federal Assembly shall fulfil the requirements for a Federal Council Dispatch (Art. 141).
The obligations to conduct an assessment under Article 4 and the obligation to estimate regulatory costs under Article 5 of the Business Cost Relief Act of 29 September 2023²apply by analogy.³

Amended by No I of the FA of 21 June 2013 (Improvements in the Organisation and Procedures of Parliament), in force since 25 Nov. 2013 (AS 2013 3687;BBl 2011 6793,6829). ↩
SR 930.31 ↩
Inserted by Art. 21 of the Business Cost Relief Act of 29 Sept. 2023, in force since 1 Oct. 2024 (AS 2024 118;BBl 2023 166). ↩

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