Issues in relation to which referendums are optional at the national level

FEDERAL CONSTITUTION OF THE SWISSCONFEDERATION

(Adopted1999; last amended 2013)

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Art. 141 Optional referendum

(1) If within 100 days of the officialpublication of the enactment any 50,000 persons eligible to vote or any eightCantons request it, the following shall be submitted to a vote of the People:

1. federal acts;

2. emergency federal acts whose term of validity exceeds one year;

3. federal decrees, provided the Constitution or an act so requires;

4. international treaties that:

1.     are of unlimited duration and may not be terminated;

2.     provide for accession to an international organisation;

3.     contain important legislative provisions or whose implementation requiresthe enactment of federal legislation.