Who determines the title of an initiative?

FEDERAL ACT ONPOLITICAL RIGHTS

(Adopted 1976; last amended 2009)

http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/161_1/index.html

Title 5: ThePopular Initiative

Art. 68 Signaturelists

(1) Thesignature list (on forms, sheets of paper or cards) that is used to collectsignatures for a popular initiative must contain the following information…

b.      the title and text of theinitiative, together with the date of its publication in the Federal Gazette;

Art. 69Preliminary examination

(1)The Federal Chancellery shall declare in a ruling before the collection ofsignatures is begun whether the signature list corresponds to the formprescribed by law.

(2) Where the title of an initiative is misleading, or if it containscommercial advertising or personal publicity or gives rise to confusion, itshall be amended by the Federal Chancellery.

(3) The Federal Chancellery shall examine the texts ofthe initiative in all official languages to ensure that they correspond andshall undertake any translation work thereon that is required.

(4) Thetitle and text of the initiative, together with the names of the authors shallbe published in the Federal Gazette.

TheFederal Chancellery may amend the title of the initiative (Art. 69(2), Federal Act on Political Rights).