The Price Surveillance is a competition authority. The primary goal is to achieve competitive prices possible. Its main tasks are the prevention of excessive prices due to cartel prices, the monitoring of prices and the orientation of the public. The price supervisor intervenes where it is not possible to succeed in creating effective competition or where effective competition is not desirable, e.g. due to overriding public interests. In principle, it monitors prices set by cartels and by companies with market power or by the state.https://www.preisueberwacher.admin.ch/pue/de/home/preisueberwachung/preisueberwacher.html