Host State Act, art. 22 (SR 192.12, transl., status 2022-11)
The funds necessary to implement this Act will be provided for in the budget. A guarantee credit will be sought in the case of a commitment for which funding extends beyond a single budget year.
USG: to avoid; EXP: a guarantee credit fixes the maximum financial commitment that the Federal Council can make for a specific project; the guarantee credit is used where the implementation of a project entails the need to make payments after the budgetary year has ended; depending on their significance, proposals for guarantee credits are submitted to the Federal Assembly either in a special dispatch or along with the decrees on the budget and the supplements to the budget.
The Swiss Parliament, Lexicon of Parliamentary terms, "Guarantee credit" ([Internet, 2025-08-27](https://www.parlament.ch/en/%C3%BCber-das-parlament/parlamentsw%C3%B6rterbuch/parlamentsw%C3%B6rterbuch-detail?WordId=227#q=guarantee%20credit))