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Art. 1 Purpose
With a Unique Business Identification Number (UID), businesses can be clearly identified so that information can be exchanged simply and safely within administrative and statistical processes.
Art. 2 Object
This Act establishes: a. the allocation and use of the UID; b. the keeping and the use of the Business Identification Register (UID register); c. the allocation and use of the required administrative number in connection with the UID; d. the allocation of a uniform international identifier «Legal Entity Identifier» (LEI) at the request of the UID entity.
let. d — Inserted by No I of the FA of 16 June 2017, in force since 15 Oct. 2017 (AS 2017 5155; BBl 2017 1).
Art. 3 Definitions
1 In this Act: a. UID: a non-speaking and unchangeable number that clearly identifies a UID entity; b. UID supplement: the supplementary indication that specifies whether the UID entity has not been deleted from the commercial register or is registered in the VAT register as subject to taxation; c. UID entities: 1. the legal entities registered in the commercial register, 2. natural and legal persons not registered in the commercial register, subject to taxes or fees received by the Confederation or its institutions, 3. natural persons who operate a commercial business or exercise a liberal profession and do not come under no.1 or 2, whereby the UID is allocated for each individual business, 4. corporate bodies lacking legal capacity that need to be identified for administrative purposes due to their economic activity, 5. foreign or international legal persons that have a place of business in Switzerland or need to be identified for the implementation of Swiss law, 6. all businesses an
Para. 1 let. d — Amended by Annex 1 No II 36 of the Data Protection Act of 25 Sept. 2020, in force since 1 Sept. 2023 (AS 2022 491; BBl 2017 6941). Para. 1 let. g — Inserted by No I of the FA of 16 June 2017, in force since 15 Oct. 2017 (AS 2017 5155; BBl 2017 1).