Commentaries: Art. 64

The Parliamentary Services assist the Federal Assembly in the fulfilment of its duties.
They carry out the following tasks:
1. they plan and organise the sessions and the meetings of the committees;
2. they are responsible for providing secretarial services, carrying out translation work and taking the minutes of the resolutions and debates of the councils, the United Federal Assembly and the committees;
3. they keep records and offer services in relation to records and information technologies;
4. ¹ they operate information systems used to evaluate data for the fulfilment of the tasks of the Federal Assembly, its organs and the members of the councils; this data processing may also include particularly sensitive personal data; a Federal Assembly ordinance shall specify the sources used for this purpose and regulate access authorisations and how this data may be disclosed;
5. they advise the assembly members, and in particular the Presiding Colleges of the councils and the chairpersons of the committees on factual and procedural matters;
6. they inform the general public about the Federal Assembly and its activities;
7. they assist the Federal Assembly in its activities with regard to international relations;
8. subject to the reservation of the competencies of the organs of the councils, they are responsible for all other tasks relevant to the administration of Parliament.

Inserted by No I of the FA of 16 March 2018 (Up-to-date parliamentary information and documentation services), in force since 26 Nov. 2018 (AS 2018 3547;BBl 2017 6877,6889). ↩

Art. 64