What Switzerland Unfair Competition Act 1986 (UCA/LCD) - SECO Enforcement and Misleading Advertising Rules requires
Switzerland's Federal Act against Unfair Competition of 19 December 1986 (UCA - Unlauterkeitsgesetz/LCD - Loi sur la concurrence deloyale, SR 241) prohibits deceptive, misleading, and aggressive commercial practices; provides both civil and criminal enforcement channels; the 2012 revision strengthened consumer protection and added specific provisions on misleading pricing, spam, and aggressive direct marketing; enforced by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and cantonal consumer protection authorities; criminal penalties include up to 3 years imprisonment for serious violations.
Pillar: Sales, Marketing & PR · Authority: State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO); cantonal consumer protection and price supervisory authorities · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1988/223_223_223/de
SHA-256 integrity: a4e16efda319c0cbea7530e30327e9c5c14f249cec56a2cdd31284c194287e60
Primary Citations — 6 traced to source
- Article 2 (general prohibition); Article 3 (specific unfair acts); Article 9 (civil remedies); Article 23 (criminal penalties) — Federal Act against Unfair Competition (UCA/LCD) SR 241 - Fedlex
- SECO enforcement of UCA; guidance on misleading advertising; direct marketing opt-out rules; price supervisor interaction — SECO - Lauterkeitsrecht / Droit de la concurrence deloyale
+ 4 more citations (full bibliography, deterministic workflow, actionable schema and crosswalks) included in the vault unlock — $0.01 via Skyfire / L402 / Direct Base USDC.
Access
- Discovery (free): /api/v1/nodes/switzerland-unfair-competition-act-1986-uca.json — 6-field metadata
- Vault (full node): /api/v1/vault/nodes/switzerland-unfair-competition-act-1986-uca.json — full 13-key payload, $0.01 USDC (L402/Skyfire/Direct Base)
- Canonical URL: https://bidda.com/intelligence/switzerland-unfair-competition-act-1986-uca
- Back to registry: Browse all 10,099 compliance nodes