The BR has published the results of the Consultation on the Address Services Act (which had ended on November 22, 2019) noted (cf. the Results report from December 11, 2020) and decided to use the Preliminary draft (in addition the Explanatory report) to be adjusted selectively and further clarifications to be made.
The explanatory report paraphrases the goal of the ADG as follows:
A National Address Service (NAD) for authorities and third parties allows them to search and match addresses of persons registered in Switzerland throughout Switzerland.
For any authority that needs this information to fulfill its mission, the new service offers clear added value. The aim is to enable administrations and third parties to perform their tasks more easily and more quickly, resulting in efficiency gains. The aim is also to improve the quality of address data already maintained in existing public sector systems. Individual specialist tasks can thus be performed in a qualitatively better way. In the case of written contacts, cost savings can be achieved by reducing the number of returns.
[…]The NAD is being designed as a basic service that will Existing address information centrally accessible for further use by authorities (see also chapter 2.1). It is planned to build up the NAD on the basis of existing processes for data delivery and cleansing to the federal government. […]