SLK: Foundation and Commission with new presidents
The members of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss Fair Trading Commission have elected Filippo Lombardi and Christine Bulliard-Marbach as chairpersons of the foundation and the commission, respectively.
The Swiss Fairness Commission has been in existence since 1966, according to a statement on Friday. As a private self-regulatory body for commercial communications, its task is to identify unfair practices in advertising and to put a stop to them with the help of the media. In 1981, it became an independent foundation. Both the foundation and the commission are headed by a president. At their annual meeting, the members of the Foundation Board made new appointments to these positions. Former Council of States member Carlo Schmid handed over the chairmanship of the foundation to Ticino Council of States member Filippo Lombardi, and National Council member Christine Bulliard-Marbach (CVP Fribourg) was elected as president of the commission. She replaces Pascal Bruderer, a member of the Council of States from Aargau, who took over the post in 2007.
