In civil proceedings, statutory and court-ordered time limits are suspended from the seventh day before Easter up to and including the seventh day after Easter, from 15 July up to and including 15 August, and from 18 December up to and including 2 January. The same rules apply before the Federal Supreme Court.
There are important exceptions: court holidays do not apply in conciliation proceedings or in summary proceedings, and there are no court holidays at all in criminal proceedings. Anyone facing a time limit over the holidays should therefore first determine the type of proceedings.