Commentaries: Art. 30

The Federal Council, the General Secretaries’ Conference, the departments and the Federal Chancellery shall ensure the proper functioning of the administration by issuing directives and working aids.
The directives and working aids shall regulate in particular:
1. the preparation of Federal Council business;
2. ¹ .
3. the structure of Federal Council dispatches and reports to the Federal Assembly;
4. the drafting and layout of federal legislation;
5. the principles for a level-appropriate allocation of responsibilities;
6. the preliminary legislative procedure, insofar as it is not regulated in the Ordinance of 17 June 1991²on the Consultation Procedure;
7. the use of resources, in particular in relation to personnel, finance, IT and logistics;
8. the composition and election, mandates, procedures and business dealings of administrative, planning and coordination bodies;
9. cultivating the Federal Administration’s international relations;
10. the commercial secondary activities of administrative units;
11. the duty to keep records;
12. authorisations of the President of the Confederation in application of Article 26 paragraph 4 GAOA;
13. the coordination of information and communication.

Repealed by No I of the O of 21 Aug. 2002, with effect from 1 Oct. 2002 (AS 2002 2827). ↩
[AS 1991 1632; 1996 1651Art. 22.AS 2005 4103Art. 22]. See now the Consultation Ordinance of 17 Aug. 2005 (SR 172.061.1 ). ↩

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