Commentaries: Art. 146

At the start of each legislature period, the Federal Council shall submit to the Federal Assembly a dispatch on the legislature plan and a draft simple federal decree on the legislature plan.
The simple federal decree shall define the policy guidelines and objectives of the legislature plan and assign to these the legislation of the Federal Assembly that is planned and the additional measures required to achieve each of these objectives.
In the dispatch on the legislature plan, indicators shall be assigned to the objectives that allow the achievement of the objectives to be verified. The dispatch shall also contain an analysis of the situation that is based on the indicators. In addition, it shall provide a summary of all the draft legislation that the Federal Council plans to submit to the Federal Assembly during the legislature period (the legislative programme).
The dispatch shall present the legislature financial plan. This shall set out the financial requirements for the legislature period, and indicate how the requirements are to be met. The objectives and measures of the legislature plan and the legislature financial plan shall be coordinated with each other in terms of subject matter and time scheduling.

Art. 146