Commentaries: Art. 162

The following provisions on procedural relations between the Federal Assembly and the Federal Council are applicable in an analogous manner to procedural relations between the Federal Assembly and the federal courts:
1. budget and state accounts (Art. 142 para. 1);
2. annual report (Art. 144 para. 2 and 145 para. 2);
3. dealings between the committees and the Federal Council (7^thTitle, Chapter 2.);
4. parliamentary investigation committee (9^thTitle).
The Federal Supreme Court shall appoint a member who is responsible in the Assembly and in its committees for matters relating to the drafts of the budget, the accounts and the annual reports of the federal courts as well as their views on parliamentary procedural requests that relate to the conduct of their business or their financial policy.
The member of the Federal Supreme Court may be accompanied in the committees by persons in the service of the Confederation, or, with the agreement of the committee president, be represented by such persons.
The committees shall allow the federal courts the opportunity to express their views where a bill subject to their preliminary examination relates to the competencies, the organisation or the administration of the federal courts.
Paragraphs 1–4 apply by analogy to the Supervisory Authority for the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland and the FDPIC.¹

Inserted by Annex No II 2 of the Law Enforcement Authorities Act of 19 March 2010 (AS 2010 3267;BBl 2008 8125). Amended by No I of the FA of 21 March 2025 (Submission of Procedural Requests and Parliamentary Initiatives), in force since 8 Sept. 2025 (AS 2025 530;BBl 2024 1799,2462). ↩

Art. 162