Commentaries: Art. 2

The Federal Administration is subordinate to the Federal Council. It comprises the departments and the Federal Chancellery.
The individual departments are divided into offices, which may be organised into groups. Each has a General Secretariat.
The Federal Administration also includes decentralised administrative units in accordance with the terms of its organisational directives.
Federal legislation may assign administrative duties to entities under public or private law which are not part of the Federal Administration.