> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.libratech.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Fedlex

> The Swiss Federal Chancellery's official federal-law portal: the consolidated Classified Compilation, always in its latest in-force version. Free, included.

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**Fedlex** ([fedlex.admin.ch](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch)) is the official federal-law portal of the Swiss Confederation, run by the **Federal Chancellery** (Bundeskanzlei). It's the authoritative source for in-force Swiss federal law, and it's free.

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    Name the law by its official abbreviation — *OR*, *ZGB*, *StGB*, *ArG* — rather than its full title. Abbreviations are matched exactly, so they resolve far more reliably.
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## What it covers

Libra reads one Fedlex collection: the **Classified Compilation (SR / RS)**, the consolidated body of federal acts, ordinances and international treaties currently in force. You name a law, Libra resolves it to the matching act, and then returns up to ten of the articles most relevant to the topic in your question rather than the whole statute. Each citation carries the article number, the consolidated version date it was read from, and a link straight to that act on fedlex.admin.ch. Where a law's text has no article structure to cite, the citation names the act without an article number.

<Note>
  Fedlex in Libra is **in-force federal law only**. It doesn't reach the Official Compilation (AS / RO), the Federal Gazette (BBl / FF) with its drafts and dispatches, or any earlier version of an act — and cantonal law isn't published in Fedlex at all. For those, work from [fedlex.admin.ch](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch) or a cantonal source directly.
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## Languages

Swiss federal law is published in **German**, **French** and **Italian**, the three official languages, and Libra can retrieve any of them. Selected acts also have a non-binding **English** translation. Romansh isn't available.

By default Libra retrieves the version matching your Libra interface language, and you can override that in the question itself: ask in French, or say which language version you want, and the citations come from that text. If the law you asked for has no version in that language, Libra falls back to German rather than returning nothing.

## Practice areas

All Swiss federal law: civil (ZGB, OR), criminal (StGB), administrative, tax, social insurance, financial market regulation, public procurement, and so on.

## What you can ask

* *"What does the Swiss Code of Obligations say about rental termination notice periods?"*
* *"Under ZGB, what are the requirements for guardianship?"*
* *"Quote Article 6 OR in the French version."*
* *"Welche Pflichten ergeben sich aus Art. 717 OR für VR-Mitglieder?"*

## Setup

Nothing to connect. Fedlex is **Included** — no add-on, no credentials. It appears in the **Research** picker as soon as **Switzerland** is one of your workspace's jurisdictions.

## Tips

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  <Accordion title="Use the official abbreviation">
    *OR*, *ZGB*, *StGB* and *ArG* are matched exactly against the act's short title. A full title has to match word for word, so *"Bundesgesetz über die Landwirtschaft"* can come back empty where *LwG* succeeds.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Say what the question is about">
    Libra picks the articles to cite by matching your wording against the text of the statute, so describing the legal issue — *missbräuchliche Kündigung*, *warranty for defects*, *Verzugszins* — gets you the right provisions instead of a general summary of the act.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Historical versions need the portal">
    Libra always returns the version in force today; there's no way to ask it for the text as it stood on an earlier date. Follow the citation link to fedlex.admin.ch and pick the point-in-time text there.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Combine Fedlex and OpenCaseLaw">
    Statute plus cases is the default Swiss research pattern. Both are Included, so it costs nothing to enable them together.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Next steps

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  <Card title="OpenCaseLaw" icon="gavel" href="/en/integrations/switzerland/opencaselaw">
    Free Swiss case-law to pair with the statutes.
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  <Card title="Zefix" icon="building" href="/en/integrations/switzerland/zefix">
    Swiss commercial register: companies, legal forms, signing rights.
  </Card>
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