Question juridique clé
Whether the expert commission was entitled to file a criminal complaint for alleged breach of research secrecy under Art. 321bis StGB.
Solution extraite
No. The commission’s statutory task is to decide on authorization requests and issue warnings or reports, but it is not granted criminal-complaint standing by Art. 321bis StGB or the VOBG.
Motifs extraits
The court held that neither the purpose of the secrecy regime nor the wording of the statute and ordinance extends complaint rights to the approval authority. A mere power to file a criminal report is not equivalent to a criminal complaint, and such standing cannot be created on ordinance level absent express statutory authorization.