The Fedlex Platform

Fedlex is the name of the Federal Chancellery platform, on which federal legislation is published. This platform is primarily used to publish the following data:

  • Official Federal Gazette
  • Official Compilation of Federal Legislation
  • Classified Compilation of Federal Legislation, i.e. the consolidated version of federal legislation and international law texts
  • Consultation procedures
  • Register of sectoral agreements with the European Union
  • Interstate treaties

Tutorial

To get to know the Fedlex data and learn the various way to query them, the following Tutorial is available.

Tools and Documentation

There are various tools and helpful documents available to facilitate working with Fedlex Linked Data:

SPARQL Endpoint

The Fedlex data is available through the following SPARQL endpoint: https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/sparqlendpoint. This endpoint can be programmatically queried with HTML GET and HTML POST requests containing valid SPARQL.