This membership category has expired at the end of 2021, as of 1 January 2022 the obligations under FIDLEG have replaced all obligations under the BOVV. 

However, it should be noted that the examination of the application for affiliation by a supervisory organisation and by FINMA will also verify whether the applicant financial institution has been audited in the past two years with regard to compliance with the duties of conduct. It is therefore still recommended to comply with the requirements of the BOVV and to leave existing audit dates in place. As these are carried out retrospectively, an audit also makes sense in 2022 - and ideally it can be positively assessed by the AO and FINMA as part of the application review.