Ordinance on Official Publication Organs (Publikationsverordnung, PuV) - Subject Matter (PuV)

1. This Regulation governs the implementation of the Act on Official Publications (Publications Act, PuG) of March 20, 2018.

1. The Official Gazette includes the section "Authorities and Political Rights" and the additional sections determined by the State Chancellery in consultation with the provider of the publication platform.

1. The Official Gazette is published Monday to Friday and bears the date of the day of publication. It is not published on public holidays in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 2 of the Ordinance on the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce (Ordinance SOGC, OSOGC) of February 15, 2006.

2. In exceptional cases, the publication of the Official Gazette may be omitted on certain days.

3. Official texts in the section "Authorities and Political Rights" are generally published on Fridays. In urgent cases, publication on another day is possible.

1. Ordinances and amendments to ordinances are published with the specification of the ordinance title, the deciding authority, and the link to the publication in the official collection of laws and ordinances (GS).

1. Reporting Entities are public bodies and private entities that submit content (reports) intended for publication. They include, in particular

a) Organizational units of the canton and municipalities;

b) Public bodies of other cantons or the federal government;

c) Legal entities under cantonal and municipal public law that perform a public task;

d) Private individuals and private legal organizations, to the extent that they have been entrusted with performing public tasks or are obligated to publish due to statutory provisions.

2. The Reporting Entity is responsible for the material and formal accuracy of a report.

3. In exceptional cases, the State Chancellery may be entrusted with the recording of a report.

1. Notices not required by law, in which there is a public interest, may be published in the Official Gazette, provided they are neither unlawful nor contrary to morality and do not contain political advertising.

2. The State Chancellery decides on the publication.

1. The publication fee amounts to 30 francs per notification.

2. It is levied at the registration offices pursuant to § 5 paragraph 1. Paragraph 3 remains reserved.

3. For organizational units of the canton, it is only levied if they can pass the publication fee onto a third party.

1. Official texts are made accessible with a search function, which allows for a search particularly by keywords, category, or reporting office.

2. External search engines and archiving services are, to the extent technically possible, instructed not to index or archive them on the Internet.

1. The State Chancellery establishes the duration of public accessibility (minimum - maximum or unlimited) for each type of report as a default setting. The minimum possible duration for public accessibility is one month.

2. Except for types of reports that are to be published indefinitely, the duration of public accessibility for a report is determined by the reporting office within the prescribed framework. Once the public accessibility duration has expired, access via the search function is no longer possible.

3. The duration of public accessibility for reports containing personal data must be strictly limited. Access to such reports via the search function is only permissible until the purpose of publication has been fulfilled.

4. If the purpose of publication for reports as per paragraph 3 is not fulfilled at a specific time, access must be limited to a maximum of 3 months. In justified cases, a longer access duration can be provided for.

5. The duration of access to reports published both in the Official Gazette and in the SHAB is determined according to Article 11 paragraphs 2 and 3 of the VSHAB[4].

6. A person whose particularly sensitive personal data is contained in an online accessible text may request the leading authority to remove this data from the publication platform before the deadlines stated in paragraph 3, if

a) the person concerned confirms that they have taken note of the publication; and

b) the anonymization does not infringe upon the rights of third parties.

7. Reports no longer accessible via the publication platform can be viewed at the State Archives.

1. The collection is divided according to the decimal classification system into the following 9 parts

a) Foundations, Organization, Municipalities;

b) Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law, Enforcement;

c) Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Penal System;

d) School, Church, Culture;

e) Police, Military, Civil Protection;

f) Finance, Regalia;

g) Construction, Public Works, Transportation;

h) Health, Labor, Social Law;

i) National Economy.

1. The State Chancellery annually creates multiple backups of the BGS in both paper and electronic form (available offline) to ensure access to the BGS in extraordinary situations.

1. The authoritative version of an official gazette publication is the individually published and electronically signed notice in PDF format available on the official gazette portal.

2. The authoritative versions of the electronic publications of the GS and the BGS are always the versions published and electronically signed in PDF format on the legal collection website bgs.so.ch of the Canton of Solothurn.

1. The State Chancellery shall take the necessary contractual, technical, and organizational measures to ensure data security. In particular, it shall ensure that the published texts actually originate from the correct author (authenticity) and have not been improperly or unintentionally altered after publication (integrity).

2. The authoritative versions of electronic publications shall be provided with an electronic signature or an electronic seal in accordance with Article 2 letters c, d, or e of the Federal Act of March 18, 2016, on Electronic Signatures (ZertES). In urgent cases, the electronic signature may temporarily be dispensed with due to technical problems.

1. The free consultation of the data published pursuant to § 13 paragraph 1 of the Publication Act also includes downloading the texts for personal use.

1. The following provisions apply to the utilization of the data published in accordance with § 13 paragraph 1 of the Publication Act

a) The data must not be altered in content;

b) They must be presented in such a way that they are visually distinct from comments or other additions;

c) They must include a notice stating that only the publication by the State Chancellery is authoritative;

d) Personal data in official gazette texts must be removed as soon as the State Chancellery no longer publishes them or only disseminates them in an anonymized form;

e) Particularly sensitive personal data in texts other than those referred to in letter d may not be utilized or further disseminated.

1. The official publications of the Federation and the Canton can be viewed free of charge at the State Chancellery, the District Offices, and the Municipalities.

1. The collected official gazette issues of the previous week can be obtained in printed form by subscription from the State Chancellery for a fee of 6 francs.

2. The State Chancellery may offer the Official Collection (GS) as well as individual enactments from the Consolidated Collection (BGS) in printed form on order at cost price.

1. The archiving of official notifications from the Official Gazette and the contents of the chronological collection of laws is carried out at least annually by the State Archive.

2. Of the texts published in the Official Gazette, all data necessary to reconstruct the originally published texts is retained ("closed data").

3. The closed data is stored separately from publicly accessible communication networks in the State Archive of the canton.