Financial Risk:
Low
Score:
79/100
Asset Disposals
Q24
67/100
How effective are controls over the disposal of assets, and is information on these disposals, and the proceeds of their sale, transparent?
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Article 109 of the Federal Law on the Army and the Military Administration (Militärgesetz, MG) regulates the liquidation of assets. It assigns the Federal…
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Materiel that is not restricted for civilian use is sold by Armasuisse [1]. No general information is available about these sales. They are subject…
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Income has to be channelled back into the general federal budget according to the law [1]. A motion in Parliament in 2012 suggested changing…
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Q25
67/100
Is independent and transparent scrutiny of asset disposals conducted by defence establishments, and are the reports of such scrutiny publicly available?
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The Federal Audit Office has previously published audits of liquidation processes (but they are outside of the time frame of this study) [1]. A…
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Liquidation processes are reported within the regular legislative process, including budgeting and reporting. Thus the same oversight procedures apply. Article 1.1 of the Federal…
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Not all reports are systematically published; however, they are generally covered by the Freedom of Information Act [1]. The DDPS also has an independent…
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Secret Budgets
Q26
75/100
What percentage of defence and security expenditure in the budget year is dedicated to spending on secret items relating to national security and the intelligence services?
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In the publicly available financial documents in 2018 and 2019, the budget for the intelligence service was slightly above 1% of the overall budget…
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Q27
100/100
Is the legislature (or the appropriate legislative committee or members of the legislature) given full information for the budget year on the spending of all secret items relating to national security and military intelligence?
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The Swiss Federal Audit Office oversees and audits all public expenditures done by the federal administration with only a few exceptions. This includes military…
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Q28
100/100
Are audit reports of the annual accounts of the security sector (the military and intelligence services) subject to parliamentary debate?
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The parliament exercises supervisory control over the government and the Federal Administration (Article 52 of ParlA). The Control Committees (CCs) “exercise supervisory control over…
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With the adoption of the new Nachrichtendienstgesetz (NDG) in 2015, the oversight system was changed [1]. The Executive Commission of the Federal Assembly (GPK)…
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Q29
100/100
In law, are off-budget military expenditures permitted, and if so, are they exceptional occurrences that are well-controlled? In practice, are there any off-budget military expenditures? If so, does evidence suggest this involves illicit economic activity?
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The different units of the Federal Administration operate with global budgets (i.e. a budget with a global set amount for a fixed period without…
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There is no legal provision that would allow for off-budget spending and all spending is subject to parlamentary oversight [1].
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There is no legal provision that would allow for off-budget spending and all spending is subject to parlamentary oversight. There were no reports during…
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Q30
75/100
Are mechanisms for accessing information from the defence sector effective?
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Access to information is regulated in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) [1] and the Ordinance on the Protection of Federal Information (Informationsschutzverordnung, ISchV)…
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This indicator is not scored in the GDI. |The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) establishes access as default principle for governmental information (Article 6)…
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The Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) publishes online detailed budget information and planning in its submissions to the Federal Assembly…
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Q31
50/100
Do national defence and security institutions have beneficial ownership of commercial businesses? If so, how transparent are details of the operations and finances of such businesses?
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Q32
88/100
Are military-owned businesses subject to transparent independent scrutiny at a recognised international standard?
View QuestionIllegal Private Enterprise
Q33
63/100
Is there evidence of unauthorised private enterprise by military or other defence ministry employees? If so, what is the government’s reaction to such enterprise?
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The Federal Personnel Law (Bundespersonalgesetz BPG), as well as the Federal Personnel Ordinance (Bundespersonalverordnung BPV), contain provisions on private enterprise for government officials. These…
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In 2016 the internal audit of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) published a report on conflicts of interests amongst…
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Actual Military Spending
Q77
88/100
Is comprehensive data on actual spending on defence published during the budget year?
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The actual spending is reported at the end of the year State Financial Statement (Staatsrechnung) [1]. It contains overall numbers for income, personnel, administration…
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The actual full spending is reported at the end of the year State Financial Statement (Staatsrechnung) [1]. It contains overall numbers for income, personnel,…
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The Federal Council has to submit the financial statement in the following year at least two months before the session of Parliament when it…
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The actual spending is reported at the end of the year State Financial Statement (Staatsrechnung) [1]. Every position is compared to the previous year…
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