Committee memberships of the members of parliament
parl-committees
- Publisher
- Parliamentary Services of the Federal Assembly
- Access method
odata- Table id
MemberCommittee- 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 · councils National Council and Council of States (current members) · scope current memberships of committees, subcommittees, delegations, the Bureaus and the coordination conference
- Gaps
- Current memberships only; no start date of a membership and no former memberships (MemberCommitteeHistory is not fetched). Committees' own composition pages on parlament.ch also list secretariats and addresses, which are not used.
- Used on
- AGORA-13, AGORA-14
- Known limits
- Joint committees of both councils (e.g. Redaktionskommission, Gerichtskommission) have one committee_id for members of both councils. The English page shows the German names (the service publishes no English names; marked lang="de").
- Verification
- verification date: 2026-10-31 · method: Fetched MemberCommittee from ws.parlament.ch (932 memberships of all 246 current members, 82 committees). Compared the Finance Committee of the National Council (committee 2) with the member list the Parliamentary Services publish on the committee's page (PDF "Finanzkommission Nationalrat (FK-N)", Stand 31.10.2026, linked from the page below): president Nicolet Jacques, vice-president Stadler Simon and the same 25 names — equal. (The composition PDF of December 2023, "Beschluss des Büro-N vom 14. Dezember 2023", shows the start of the legislature and differs: presidency and some seats changed since.) · checkedValue: FK-N: 25 members, president person 4168 (Nicolet Jacques), vice-president Stadler Simon · checkedAgainst: https://www.parlament.ch/de/organe/kommissionen/aufsichtskommissionen/kommissionen-fk
- Processed file
- data/processed/parl-committees.csv
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- Freshness
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- Period covered
- Not a time series
- Last change of the data
- Last check of the source
- Update rhythm
- Continuous
Ledger note (in English): Changes when committees are reconstituted or presidencies change, and when a member joins or leaves; the service is read nightly.
- Votara checks the source
- Every day
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Transformations
- OData GET MemberCommittee, languages DE, FR and IT (one row per membership and language, joined on ID). Script: scripts/fetch/parl-committees.ts
- Current members only (person ids from data/processed/parl-members.csv).
- person_id = PersonNumber; committee_id = CommitteeNumber; committee_abbr / committee_abbr_fr / committee_abbr_it = Abbreviation1 of the German, French and Italian rows (FK-N / CdF-N / CdF-N); name_de/fr/it = CommitteeName as published.
- function = key of the published CommitteeFunction code: 1 member (Mitglied), 2 president (Präsident/in), 6 vice_president, 9 teller (Stimmenzähler/in), 10 substitute_teller, 11 group_president (Fraktionspräsident/in), 12 substitute (Stellvertreter/in), 13 first_vice_president, 14 second_vice_president; an unknown code is kept as "other" with a warning. function_de/fr/it = CommitteeFunctionName as published.
- Rows sorted by person_id, committee_id.