¹ FINMA levies fees for supervisory proceedings in individual cases and for services. In addition, it levies an annual supervision charge on the supervised persons and entities for each supervision area to cover the costs incurred by FINMA that are not covered by the fees.

² The supervision charge is assessed according to the following criteria:

a.³⁰

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a^bis.³¹

For supervised persons and entities under Article 1a of the Banking Act of 8 November 1934³², Article 2 paragraph 1 letter e of the Financial Institutions Act of 15 June 2018³³ and the Mortgage Bond Act of 25 June 1930³⁴, on the basis of the balance sheet total and securities turnover; for supervised persons and entities under Article 2 paragraph 1 letters c and d of the Financial Institutions Act on the basis of the amount of assets managed, the gross earnings and the size of the undertaking; for supervised persons and entities under Article 1b of the Banking Act, on the basis of the balance sheet total and the gross earnings.

a^ter.³⁵

For supervised persons and entities under the Financial Market Infrastructure Act of 19 June 2015³⁶, on the basis of the balance sheet total and securities turnover, or gross earnings if no securities are transacted.

b.

For supervised persons and entities under the Collective Investment Schemes Act of 23 June 2006³⁷, on the basis of the amount of assets managed, the gross earnings and the size of the undertaking.

c.

For insurance institutions under the Insurance Supervision Act of 17 December 2004³⁸, on the basis of their share of the total premium income for all insurance institutions; for insurance agents under Article 43 paragraph 1 of the Insurance Supervision Act of 17 December 2004, on the basis of their number and the size of the undertaking.

d.³⁹

For self-regulatory organisations under the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 10 October 1997⁴⁰ (AMLA), on the basis of the gross earnings and number of members;

e.⁴¹

For a supervisory organisation in accordance with Title 3, the share accounted for by its supervised persons and entities with regard to the total number of supervised persons and entities of all supervisory organisations is decisive; the supervision fee also covers the costs that FINMA incurs that are caused by supervised persons and entities and which are not covered by other charges.

³ The Federal Council may provide for the apportionment of the supervision fee into a fixed basic fee and a variable supplementary fee.

⁴ It regulates the details, and in particular:

a.

the assessment principles;

b.

the supervision areas under paragraph 1; and

c.

the apportionment of the costs to be financed by the supervision charge among the supervision areas.