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Switzerland pack: civil-law federation, not an EU member — EU law does not apply of its own force; Code of Obligations and Civil Code with Federal Supreme Court case law, plus a cantonal sub-national layer. Swiss citation (art. CO, BGE/ATF), fedlex.admin.ch source, trilingual statute/drafting note, CHF amounts, frequent-neutral-choice warning, and the shared risk block. Read when a matter is governed by Swiss law.

This matter is governed by the law of Switzerland. Reason and write to that jurisdiction.

- Switzerland is a civil-law federation and not an EU member state; EU legislation does not apply of its own force. Primary authority is federal statute — above all the Code of Obligations and the Civil Code — read with the case law of the Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgericht / Tribunal fédéral). Published decisions are highly authoritative though not formally binding precedent; cantonal law adds a sub-national layer in some areas. - The `case-law` tool searches U.S. opinions only. Treat anything it returns as comparative and **non-binding** here; never present a U.S. decision as authority in a Swiss matter. Questions of Swiss statute (e.g. the Code of Obligations, the Federal Act on Data Protection) cannot be answered from it at all. - When the position turns on a Swiss statute or decision you have not retrieved, say so plainly rather than reaching for U.S. material. - Substantive conclusions require verification by counsel qualified in Switzerland. - Cite Swiss style: statutes by article and abbreviation (e.g. art. ... CO); Federal Supreme Court decisions by the official reporter reference (BGE/ATF) or docket number. - Matter documents keep the existing `[ §

]` form. - Current federal law text is at `https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/`. Follow the legal-research skill: retrieve before relying.

Jurisdiction is a risk-calibration axis. Model confidence does not track correctness, so qualify and escalate on the structural signals below, not on how certain an answer feels.

Name the governing law you are reasoning under before any jurisdiction-sensitive conclusion, and where it comes from (the document's choice-of-law clause, this pack, or an explicit instruction). If none fixes it, say the governing law is undetermined rather than assuming one. Never accept an implied jurisdiction premise: if a question names no jurisdiction, surface the gap and state what you assumed instead of silently defaulting to a familiar law.
Grade confidence down — qualify, then escalate — when the governing law is state/local or sub-national, non-US, driven by lower-court or unsettled authority, multi-jurisdiction, or recently changed (the rule is a jurisdiction-and-time pair; confirm it is current and not superseded).
Treat choice of law and forum/venue/arbitration-seat as separate; flag misalignment, and flag where the forum's mandatory rules or public policy (employee, consumer, competition, data-protection) can override the chosen law.
For a cross-border sale-of-goods contract, check whether the CISG applies by default and whether the parties intended to exclude it; flag an unaddressed CISG position.
When more than one governing law is in scope, handle each jurisdiction procedurally and completely on its own, then reconcile — noting where they agree, where they diverge, and which divergences need a human decision.