Legal provisions for mandatory referendums at national level

FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OF THE SWISSCONFEDERATION

(Adopted1999; last amended 2013)

http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/c101.html

Art. 140 Mandatory referendum

(1) The following must be put to the vote of thePeople and the Cantons:

1. amendments to the Federal Constitution;
2. accession to organisations for collective security or to supranational communities;
3. emergency federal acts that are not based on a provision of the Constitution and whose term of validity exceeds one year; such federal acts must be put to the vote within one year of being passed by the Federal Assembly.

(2) The following are submitted to a vote of thePeople:

1. popular initiatives for a complete revision of the Federal Constitution;
2. popular initiatives for a partial revision of the Federal Constitution in the form of a general proposal that have been rejected by the Federal Assembly;
3. the question of whether a complete revision of the Federal Constitution should be carried out, in the event that there is disagreement between the two Councils.