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- BLW /
OFAG / UFAG / FOAG - Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft / Office
fédéral de l'agriculture / Ufficio federale dell'agricoltura / Federal
Office for Agriculture
The FOAG is the Confederation's competence
centre for all core issues relating to the agricultural sector
- Agroscope
Swiss research into agriculture, nutrition
and the environment
Agroscope belongs to the Federal Office for Agriculture and comprises
the three
research stations
- Agroscope
Changins-Wädenswil ACW
- Agroscope
Liebefeld-Posieux ALP
- Agroscope
Reckenholz-Tänikon ART
Since 2008, ALP
and the Swiss National Stud in Avenches have been under
shared management, as ALP-Haras.
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- BVET /
OVF / UFV - Bundesamt für Veterinärwesen / Office vétérinaire
fédéral / Ufficio federale di veterinaria
Das Bundesamt für Veterinärwesen versteht
sich als Fachstelle für die Gesundheit von Tier und Mensch sowie für
das Wohl der Tiere in menschlicher Obhut.
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- BFK / BFC / UFDC / FCAB
- Eidgenössisches Büro für Konsumentenfragen / Bureau fédéral de la
consommation / Ufficio federale del consumo / Federal Consumer Affairs
Bureau
The Federal Office of Consumer
Affairs is attached to the General Secretariat of the Federal
Department of Economic Affairs. Its task is to take into account the
general interest as regards consumption, by weighing the specific
collective interests of the consumers and the general interests of the
economy, and by seeking a profitable dialogue with the various services
of the administration. It gives its opinions on consumer matters and
collaborates in the elaboration of laws and ordinances.
The Federal Office of Consumer Affairs is interested by all the
market's offers concerning the products (food security, general product
safety, domestic machines, textile, furnishing, toys,
drugs, packaging, etc.) and the services (banks, insurances, education,
transport, leisure activities, telecommunications, electricity, post
office,
housing, energy, etc).
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- OSEC
- Business Network Switzerland
Osec is the centre of expertise for Swiss
foreign trade. It has been commissioned by the Swiss government to
provide the performance mandates of export, location and import
promotion.
- SECO
- Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft / Secrétariat d'Etat à l'économie /
Segreteria di Stato dell’economia / State Secretariat for Economic
Affairs
The SECO is the Confederation's competence
centre for all core issues relating to economic policy.
- WEKO / COMCO
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Wettbewerbskommission / Commission de la concurrence / Commissione
della concorrenza / Competition
Commission
The protection of competition is the most
important regulatory task in a market economy. In Switzerland, this
task is primarily performed using the instruments provided by the Act
on Cartels. The application of the Act is the duty of the Competition
Commission and its Secretariat. The Competition Commission is an
independent federal authority. The tasks of the Competition Commission
are combating harmful cartels, monitoring dominant companies for signs
of anti-competitive conduct, enforcing merger control legislation and
preventing the imposition of restraints of competition by the state.
- Zefix - Zentraler
Firmenindex / Index central des
raisons de commerce / indice centrale delle ditte / Central Business
Names Index
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- SBF / SER -
Staatssekretariat für Bildung und Forschung / Secrétariat d'Etat à
l'éducation et à la recherche / Segreteria di Stato per l'educazione e
la ricerca / State Secretariat for Education and Research
The State Secretariat for Education and
Research within the Federal Department of Home Affairs is the federal
government's specialised agency for national and international matters
concerning general and university education, research and space.
- BBT / OFFT
/ UFFT / OPET
- Bundesamt für Berufsbildung und Technologie / Office fédéral de la
formation professionnelle et de la technologie / Ufficio federale della
formazione professionale e della tecnologia / Federal Office for
Professional Education and Technology
The OPET is the federal government’s
competence centre for vocational education and training, Universities
of Applied Sciences (UAS) and innovation.
- SWTR / CSST / SSTC
- Schweizerischer Wissenschafts- und Technologierat / Conseil suisse de
la science et de la technologie / Consiglio svizzero della scienza e
della tecnologia / Swiss Science and Technology Council
As a consultative body to the Federal
Council, the SSTC can express its views on all questions of science
policy, whether on its own initiative, at the request of the Federal
Council, a federal agency, a canton, or a national organization active
in the area of education, research and innovation
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- BAFU / OFEV / UFAM / FOEN - Bundesamt für Umwelt /
Office fédéral de l'environnement / Ufficio federale dell'ambiente /
Federal Office for the Environment
The Federal Office for the Environment is
the federal government’s centre of environmental expertise and is part
of the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and
Communication.
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- METAS
- Bundesamt für Metrologie / Office fédéral de métrologie / Ufficio
federale di metrologia / The Federal Office of Metrology
The Federal Office of Metrology realises and
disseminates internationally harmonised and recognised units of
measurement with the necessary accuracy. It supervises the deployment
of measuring instruments in the fields of commerce, traffic, public
safety, health and environment. METAS supervises the execution of legal
provisions carried out by the cantons and by the authorised
verification offices. METAS delivers various services to the benefit of
society, economy and research.
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- SAS -
Schweizerische Akkreditierungsstelle / Service d'accréditation suisse /
Servizio di accreditamento svizzero / Swiss
Accreditation Service
The Swiss Accreditation Service examines and
accredites conformity assessment bodies (laboratories, inspection
bodies and certification bodies) according to international standards.
It shall implement the basic principles for the several branches in
collaboration with the interested bodies in Switzerland. Furthermore,
the Swiss Accreditation Service represents the national interests in
international organisations, which are concerned with the accreditation
and - as appropriate - the assays and the conformity assessment.
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- Spiez
Laboratory
The SPIEZ LABORATORY is the Swiss centre of
expertise in protection against nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC)
threats and hazards. NBC protection refers to all measures to defend
against and prevent nuclear, biological threats and hazards.
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- BAG
/ OFSP / UFSP / SFOPH - Bundesamt für Gesundheit / Office fédéral
de la santé publique / Ufficio federale della sanità pubblica / Swiss
Federal Office of Public Health
- Swissmedic
- Schweizerisches Heilmittelinstitut / Institut suisse des produits
thérapeutiques / Istituto svizzero per gli agenti terapeutici / Swiss
Agency for Therapeutic Products
We are the Swiss agency for the
authorisation and supervision of therapeutic products. We fulfil our
legal mandate and work with partner authorities on a national and
international basis.
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- TA-SWISS
- Centre for Technology Assessment
Technology assessment is used to identify the
consequences of new
technologies as early as possible. The recommendations resulting from
TA projects are used by Parliament and the Federal Council as an aid to
decision making – especially when controversial technology topics are
discussed. In addition, the project results are communicated to
interested politicians, experts from science and administration, as
well as the media and interested citizens.
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- BFS / OFS / UST
- Bundesamt für Statistik / Office fédéral de la statistique / Ufficio
federale di statistica
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- Kantonale
Laboratorien der Schweiz
Verzeichnis der Kontrollorgane
für
Lebensmittel und Gebrauchsgegenstände, publiziert vom Verband
der
Kantonschemiker der Schweiz (VKCS).
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- Council
of Europe
The Council of Europe seeks to develop
throughout Europe common and democratic principles based on the
European Convention on Human Rights and other reference texts on the
protection of individuals.
- EFTA
- European Free Trade Association
The EFTA is an intergovernmental
organisation set up for the promotion of free trade and economic
integration to the benefit of its four Member States: Iceland,
Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
- EU
- European Union
The European Union is a unique economic and
political partnership between 27 European countries.
- Eur-Lex
- European Union Law
- European
Commission
The European Commission represents the
general interest of the EU and is the driving force in proposing
legislation (to Parliament and the Council), administering and
implementing EU policies, enforcing EU law (jointly with the Court of
Justice) and negotiating in the international arena.
- Integrationsbüro /
Bureau de l'intégration / Ufficio dell'integrazione / Integration
Office (Switzerland - Europe)
The Integration Office analyses EU
integration policy and its impact on Switzerland. It coordinates the EU
policy of the Federal Council in cooperation with relevant offices and
provides information about Swiss EU policy and about European
integration in general.
- Rechtssammlung
zu den Bilateralen Abkommen / Recueil de textes juridiques sur les
accords bilatéraux / Raccolta dei testi giuridici riguardanti gli
Accordi bilaterali
- entsendung.admin.ch
entsendung.admin.ch ist eine
Informationsplattform zum Thema Arbeits- und Lohnbedingungen in der
Schweiz und in den verschiedenen Kantonen. Sie richtet sich sowohl an
Schweizer als auch an ausländische Unternehmen. Aber auch
Arbeitnehmende erhalten hier viele interessante Hinweise.
- Europabrevier
Bilaterale Beziehungen Schweiz - EU
- UN -
United Nations
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