Inserted by No I of the O of 19 Nov. 2003, in force since 1 Dec. 2003 (AS 2003 4117).
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Art. 5a
1 The competent department shall decide on requests from Council members and from parliamentary committees for information in accordance with Articles 7 or 150 of the Parliament Act of 13 December 2002 (ParlA). If there is disagreement between the applicant and the competent department on the scope of the rights to information, the Federal Council shall decide. 2 The Federal Council shall decide in each case: a. in the case of information that directly serves its decision-making, at the request of the Federal Chancellery; b. in the case of information relating to state security and the intelligence services at the request of the competent department. 3 Requests to inspect Federal Council decisions are processed and answered by the Federal Chancellery in consultation with the competent department.
Para. 1 — SR 171.10