Commentaries: Art. 110

An initiative shall be endorsed or a proposal for the preparation of an initiative shall be approved if the need in principle for legislation is confirmed and a parliamentary initiative is judged to be the appropriate course of action.
A parliamentary initiative shall in particular be judged appropriate if:
1. the initiative proposes a bill relating to the organisation or procedures of the Federal Assembly;
2. the Federal Council has not prepared a bill in time, despite a motion being passed to this effect; or
3. ¹ the preparation of a bill by this means will probably be achieved more quickly than by a motion.
The committee shall examine how it can prepare the bill in the time required, taking account of the methods at its disposal.

The correction made by the Federal Assembly Drafting Committee dated 17 Feb. 2016, published 1 March 2016, relates to the Italian text only (AS 2016 657). ↩

Art. 110