Official publications more likely to be electronic in future
In the canton of Zurich, official publications will primarily be published electronically in the future. However, this does not mean the immediate end of print publications.
As long as there is sufficient demand for printed versions, they will continue to be published. The cantonal government has decided on a total revision of the Publication Act and submitted a corresponding proposal to the cantonal council, as announced on Thursday. With the revision, it is reacting to the social development that media are increasingly being used in digital form. For this reason, official publications such as the Official Gazette, the Official Collection of Laws and the loose-leaf collection are to be published primarily electronically in future. The collections of laws and the Official Gazette are already available online.
The new regulation would mean that the printed version of the official publication would no longer be authoritative in future, but rather the electronic version. Landlords and landladies would no longer be obliged to publish the official gazette. (SDA)
