Consultation on the 2016-2019 cultural message
The Swiss Federal Council has opened the consultation process on the dispatch on the promotion of culture for 2016-2019. The Message on Culture sets out objectives and measures and determines the financial resources to be allocated to the federal cultural institutions during the four-year funding period.
The federal government wants to focus its cultural policy on three central axes of action: Cultural participation, social cohesion and creation and innovation. The Federal Council also wants to improve cooperation between the Confederation, cantons, cities and municipalities in order to achieve a coherent cultural policy at national level.
The Federal Council is requesting a framework credit of CHF 894.6 million to implement the Confederation's cultural policy, which corresponds to an average annual growth rate of 3.4%. Following the consultation procedure, the period of validity of the cultural dispatch is to be extended by one year until 2020 in order to ensure that it coincides with the multi-year funding decisions in other areas.
Interested parties are invited to comment on the consultation draft by September 19, 2014. Once the comments have been evaluated, the cultural dispatch will be submitted to the Federal Council for approval towards the end of the year. It will be discussed by Parliament in 2015 and enter into force in January 2016.
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