Welcome to Dr. Widmer & Partners, attorneys-at-law, Berne/Switzerland. We are a law firm active exclusively, both nationally and internationally, in the fields of IT, Internet, E-Business and Telecommunications (ICT) law. For over 25 years, we have provided professional legal services in these areas to national and international clients, including both providers and users of information and telecommunication technologies. Together with our clients, we elaborate solutions that will minimize the legal risks of their business transactions and, by doing so, contribute to our clients' economic success.

As in previous years, the start of 2012 sees the entry into force of a great many new laws and ordinances. These also include a whole range of regulations relevant for the ICT field.

The Federal Information Technology Ordinance (FITO) has been completely revised. The responsibilities for information and communication technology in the federal administration have been reorganized. Overall strategic responsibility for the use of ICT will be handled in future by the Federal Council. The Federal Strategy Unit for Information Technology (FSUIT) has been renamed the Federal IT Steering Unit (FITSU) and has been given additional competencies at operational level, including for example the adoption of ICT standards in the areas designated by the Federal Council, and is responsible for central management of standard services. At the same time the Federal IT Council (FITC) and the Information Security Committee are being transformed into purely consultative bodies of the FSUIT.