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Business submitted by members of parliament (Curia Vista)

parl-business

Publisher
Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly
Access method
odata
Table id
Business, BusinessRole
Licence
Parliamentary Services conditions of use: source "Parlamentsdienste der Bundesversammlung, Bern" must be named; content must not be altered; the download date must always be visible; no use may suggest an official publication.
Coverage
Geography national · legislature current legislature (52nd, 2023-12-04 to 2027-12-05) · scope items whose author (Urheber/in) is a current member — motions, postulates, interpellations, questions (Fragestunde, Anfrage), parliamentary initiatives · from 2023-12-04 · to 2026-10-02
Gaps
Not listed: items co-signed (Role 3), taken over from a former member (Role 4), or submitted by a committee, a parliamentary group or a canton; items of earlier legislatures; texts, answers and the item's history (only title, type and current status are kept — the Curia Vista page links to the rest).
Used on
AGORA-14, PROB-04
Known limits
Titles can be edited after submission; lists printed earlier (e.g. the session's "Liste der neuen Geschäfte") may show an older wording. The status is the item's current one. English pages show the German texts (no English version published; marked lang="de").
Verification
verification date: 2026-10-31 · method: Fetched LegislativePeriod, BusinessRole and Business from ws.parlament.ch (10207 items in the 52nd legislature, 9038 with a member as author, 8496 by current members). Compared parliamentary initiatives with the Federal Assembly's "Liste der neuen Geschäfte" for the autumn session 2026 (PDF, Stand 22.09.2026): 26.433 "Pa. Iv. Dünki-Bättig. Ausgebürgert durch Heirat. Aufarbeitung und Wiedergutmachung für betroffene Schweizerinnen" and its French title — number, type, author and both titles equal. Other items match by number, type and author but the list prints an older wording (26.428 "Schweizer Kreuz" vs "Schweizerkreuz", 26.440 "5'000" vs "5000"), see knownLimits. · checkedValue: 26.433, Parlamentarische Initiative, author person 17301 (Dünki-Bättig Michèle), submitted 2026-06-19 · checkedAgainst: https://www.parlament.ch/centers/documents/de/liste-neue-geschaefte.pdf

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Last check of the source
Update rhythm
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Ledger note (in English): New items every session, statuses change continuously; the service is read nightly.

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Transformations

  1. OData GET LegislativePeriod (DE) → the legislature containing the fetch date; BusinessRole (DE), Role 7, MemberCouncilNumber not null, BusinessSubmissionDate ≥ its start; Business, SubmissionLegislativePeriod = its number, languages DE, FR and IT. Script: scripts/fetch/parl-business.ts
  2. Only items whose author (MemberCouncilNumber = PersonNumber) is a current member (person ids from data/processed/parl-members.csv).
  3. business_id = Business ID (Curia Vista AffairId); business_number = BusinessShortNumber; business_type = BusinessType code; status_code = BusinessStatus code; title_de/fr/it = Title as published (whitespace squished only); status_de = BusinessStatusText (German) as published. Type names and the French and Italian status texts are in parl-business-codes (same download), so this file stays under 5 MB until the legislature ends.
  4. submission_date = SubmissionDate (OData /Date(ms)/, midnight UTC) as YYYY-MM-DD.
  5. tags (column added 2026-11-01 for PROB-04) = Business.Tags as published, the item's Curia Vista subject tag codes joined by "|" (e.g. 28|1216), empty when the item has none; the fetch fails when the codes differ between DE, FR and IT. Names in parl-business-codes (kind tag).
  6. url = https://www.parlament.ch/de/ratsbetrieb/suche-curia-vista/geschaeft?AffairId=<business_id> (pages link the /fr/, /it/ or /en/ version of the same address).
  7. Rows sorted by business_id, then submitter_person_id. The fetch fails above 5 MB and warns from 4.5 MB.