Federal Chancellery of Switzerland

• Area Chancellor
• Area Federal
• Information and communication
• Federal Data Protection and Information Commission
• Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner

The Federal Chancellery BK (French Federal Chancellery CF, Italian Cancelleria federale CF, Romansh Chanzlia federala CF) in Bern is the Office of the Federal Council, the Swiss government ( the executive). You stand in front of the Chancellor of the Swiss Confederation. This office has been held Corina Casanova since 1 January 2008. The two Vice-Chancellor - André Simonazzi, at the same time holds the office of the Federal Council speaker, and Thomas Helbling - support the Chancellor in their work.

Task

The Federal Chancellery performs three basic tasks:

• Support of the Federal
• Planning and Strategy
• Information and Communication

Structure

• Staff of the Directorate: Coordination and management responsibilities for the attention of the Chancellor
• Area Chancellor Planning and Strategy Section ( developed, inter alia, together with the departments to report on the legislative planning, the annual targets of the Federal Council and the annual reports for the attention of the Parliament)
• Political Rights Section (checks people's initiatives, controlled submitted petitions, organized public referenda and national elections, processed complaints in this regard )
• Section of the Federal Crisis Management Training
• Section records and process management
• Internal services ( human resources, finance and accounting, logistics, computer science, etc.)

• Section Federal contracts ( pre-and post-processing of the Bundesrat sessions)
• Legal Section ( monitoring and advisory function in the legislative process )
• Central voice services
• Competence Official Publications Centre ( KAV) (gives the Federal Gazette, Official Collection and Systematic Collection of Federal Law Right out )

• Section of Information and Communication ( inform the media and the public about the activities of the Bundesrat and the Federal Chancellery )
• E-Government Section (supported, inter alia, the internet site of the Swiss Confederation )
• Communication Support Section
• Federal Parliament and Central Library

The Federal Chancellery assigned administrative:

• Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner ( FDPIC)

History

The Federal Chancellery is the oldest permanent federal agency of Switzerland. 1803 Jean -Marc Mousson was elected the first Federal Chancellor. The firm, which he had to perform, was responsible for the agendas, correspondence and decisions of the Diet. He did this every year, together with the firm and the archive in the suburb of the Confederation pull, elected annually from the towns of Fribourg, Bern, Solothurn, Basel, Zurich and Lucerne (see also: Mediation constitution of Switzerland ). After 1815, only the suburbs of Zurich, Bern and Lucerne and the move remained was "only" every two years. The Chancellor was a Federal State scribe to the side, was not allowed to belong to the same denomination as the Chancellor. With the drafting of the Federal Constitution and the founding of the State of 1848, the Chancellor was appointed Chancellor and the State Schreiber replaced by a Vice- Chancellor. The election of the Chancellor therefore made ​​since by the Federal Assembly. 1896 got a second Vice-Chancellor. Until 1918, the Federal Chancellery also oversaw the secretariats of the Federal Assembly. This task is now performed by the parliamentary services. The workforce of the Federal Chancellery rose from 192 in 2008 to 250 in 2011.