UEFA is a society entered in the register of companies under
the Swiss civil code, and is neutral, politically and religiously.
Gary B. Born, International Commercial Arbitration 3544 - 45 (2014); Alan Redfern, J. Martin Hunter et al., Redfern & Hunter on International Arbitration 645, para. 11.76 (2009)(referring to The Arab Republic of Egypt v. Southern Pacific Properties, Court of Appeal of Paris, France, 12 July 1984, 23 ILM (1984)-RRB-; Paolo Michele Patocchi & Cesare Jermini, Article 194, in International Arbitration in Switzerland: an Introduction to and a Commentary on Articles 176 - 194 of the
Swiss Private International Law Statute 660 - 61, para. 94 (S.V. Berti et al. eds., 2000); Stefan Michael Kröll, Commentary on the German Arbitration Law (10th Book of the German
Code of
Civil Procedure), in Arbitration in Germany: The Model Law in Practice 541, para. 83 (K.H. Böckstiegel, S. Kröll, P. Nacimiento eds., 2007); Mercédeh Azeredo da Silveira & Laurent Levy, Transgression of the Arbitrators» Authority: Article V (1)(c) of the New York Convention, in Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements and International Arbitral Awards: The New York Convention in Practice 639, 639 - 40 (E. Gaillard, D. di Pietro eds., 2008).
In parallel, the judicial commission of the States Council also submitted a «postulat» in March 2016 requesting the Federal Council to elaborate a report on the issue of the privilege for in - house lawyers and to come up with solutions, for instance, in the framework of the future revision of the
Swiss Civil Procedure
Code or the
Swiss Criminal Procedure
Code.