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Name
of the institution : Federal Tribunal
President
:
Mr. Arthur AESCHLIMANN
Address
:
Case postale
CH - 1000 Lausanne 14
SWITZERLAND
Phone
number :
+ 41 21 318 91 11
Fax
:
+ 41 21 323 37 00
E-mail
:
direktion@bger.admin.ch
Web
site:
http://www.bger.ch
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Composition
and structure
Number of
members :
30 federal full time judges and 30 deputy judges.
Recruitment
procedure and incompatibilities :
The judges are elected by the Federal Assembly for renewable terms
of six years.
The three languages of the Federation (german, french, italian)
are represented.
Internal
organization :
The Federal Tribunal operates as a supreme court ; it is constituted
of two public law chambers (competent in constitutional and admininstrative
matters), two civil law chambers and a criminal law chamber.
Publications
:
Official Reports of the decisions of the Federal Tribunal (Arrêts
du Tribunal fédéral (ATF)), whose first part (volumes IA and IB)
deal with constitutional and admininstratif matters.
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Court
functions
Jurisdiction
:
Federal administrative law and constitutional law.
Organization
of the courts system :
In administrative matters, the Court adjudicates in principle on
appeal in last instance (reversal). However it tries in first and
last instance the administrative law complaints against the federal
State.
Powers of
the judge :
In administrative matters : annulment (the case being referred to
the inferior court) or reversal.
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Advisory
functions
Existence
and extent of an advisory authority :
In principle the Federal Tribunal has no advisory jurisdiction,
but the Federal Council or one of its departments may require its
opinion on a bill which is being prepared. During this " procedure
of consultation ", the Court intervenes before the bill is submitted
to the Parliament. Generally, the Court only insists on formal aspects.
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Authority
and publicity of the advisory opinions :
The observations of the Federal Tribunal do not oblige the Federal
Council and are not published.
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