¹ With­in the frame­work of the ap­plic­a­tion of the Dub­lin As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments³³⁰ SEM is re­spons­ible for deal­ings with the Cent­ral Unit of the Eurodac Sys­tem.

² It shall trans­mit the fol­low­ing data to the Cent­ral Unit:

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a. the place and date of the ap­plic­a­tion in Switzer­land;

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b. the sex of the ap­plic­ant;

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c. the fin­ger­prints taken in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 99 para­graph 1;

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d. the Swiss code num­ber for the fin­ger­prints;

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e. the date on which the fin­ger­prints were taken;

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f. the date on which the data was trans­mit­ted to the Cent­ral Unit.

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g. the user pass­word.³³¹

^2bis If the con­di­tion of the fin­gers of the per­son con­cerned do not al­low fin­ger­prints to be taken, the fin­ger­prints must be trans­mit­ted to the Cent­ral Unit with­in 48 hours of fin­ger­prints of ac­cept­able qual­ity be­ing taken. If it is im­possible to take fin­ger­prints due to the state of health of the per­son con­cerned or due to pub­lic health meas­ures, the fin­ger­prints must be trans­mit­ted to the Cent­ral Unit with­in 48 hours of the im­ped­i­ment ceas­ing to ap­ply.³³²

^2ter If the trans­mis­sion of data is pre­ven­ted by ser­i­ous tech­nic­al prob­lems, an ad­di­tion­al peri­od of 48 hours shall be al­lowed in or­der to take the meas­ures re­quired to en­sure that the sys­tem op­er­ates cor­rectly again.³³³

^2quater SEM shall also trans­mit the fol­low­ing data to the Cent­ral Unit:

a.

on the ad­mis­sion of a per­son un­der Reg­u­la­tion (EU) No 604/2013³³⁴: the time of ar­rival in Switzer­land;

b.

on the read­mis­sion of a per­son un­der Reg­u­la­tion (EU) No 604/2013: the time of ar­rival in Switzer­land;

c.

on proof that an ap­plic­ant whose ap­plic­a­tion must be pro­cessed by Switzer­land un­der Reg­u­la­tion (EU) No 604/2013 has left the ter­rit­ory of the states bound by any one of the Dub­lin As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments: the time of de­par­ture;

d.

on suc­cess­ful en­force­ment of re­mov­al, the time of the de­port­a­tion or de­par­ture of the ap­plic­ant from the ter­rit­ory of the states bound by any one of the Dub­lin As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments;

e.

if Switzer­land, based on the sov­er­eignty clause in Reg­u­la­tion (EU) No 604/2013, de­cides vol­un­tar­ily to be­come the Dub­lin state re­spons­ible for pro­cessing an asylum ap­plic­a­tion: the time of this de­cision.³³⁵

³ The trans­mit­ted data shall be stored in the Eurodac data­base and auto­mat­ic­ally com­pared with the data already stored in this data­base. The res­ult of the com­par­is­on shall be com­mu­nic­ated to SEM.³³⁶

⁴ The data shall be auto­mat­ic­ally erased by the Cent­ral Unit ten years after the fin­ger­prints were taken. If a per­son whose data has been trans­mit­ted by Switzer­land to the Eurodac data­base is gran­ted cit­izen­ship of a state bound by one of the Dub­lin As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments be­fore the ex­piry of this peri­od, SEM, as soon as it has been no­ti­fied of this fact, shall re­quest the Cent­ral Unit to erase the data im­me­di­ately.

¹ A spe­cial­ist shall ex­am­ine the fin­ger­prints if Eurodac re­veals a match.

² SEM de­cides on the qual­i­fic­a­tions that the fin­ger­print spe­cial­ist must have.

The dis­clos­ure of per­son­al data to the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies of states that are bound by one of the Dub­lin As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments shall be re­garded as equi­val­ent to the dis­clos­ure of per­son­al data between fed­er­al bod­ies.

¹ Per­son­al data may be dis­closed to third coun­tries only if they guar­an­tee an ad­equate level of data pro­tec­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 16 para­graph 1 FADP³³⁸.³³⁹

² If a third coun­try fails to guar­an­tee an ad­equate level of data pro­tec­tion, per­son­al data may be dis­closed to that coun­try in the fol­low­ing cases:

a.

the per­son con­cerned has giv­en their con­sent in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6 para­graph 6 and if ap­plic­able para­graph 7 FADP;

b.

the dis­clos­ure is re­quired to pro­tect the life or phys­ic­al in­teg­rity of the per­son con­cerned and it is not pos­sible to ob­tain the per­son’s con­sent with­in a reas­on­able time; or

c.

the dis­clos­ure is re­quired to safe­guard over­rid­ing pub­lic in­terests or to es­tab­lish, ex­er­cise or en­force leg­al rights in a court or be­fore an­oth­er com­pet­ent for­eign au­thor­ity.³⁴⁰

³ In ad­di­tion to the cases men­tioned in para­graph 2, per­son­al data may also be dis­closed if in spe­cif­ic cases ad­equate guar­an­tees en­sure ap­pro­pri­ate pro­tec­tion of the per­son con­cerned.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the ex­tent of the guar­an­tees re­quired and the mod­al­it­ies for provid­ing the guar­an­tees.

⁵ The data ob­tained from the Eurodac data­base may not be trans­mit­ted un­der any cir­cum­stances to:

a.

a state that is not bound by any of the Dub­lin as­so­ci­ation agree­ments;

b.

in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions;

c.

private en­tit­ies.³⁴¹

¹ The can­ton­al data pro­tec­tion au­thor­it­ies and the Fed­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion and In­form­a­tion Com­mis­sion­er (FD­PIC) shall work to­geth­er with­in the scope of their re­spect­ive re­spons­ib­il­it­ies.

² The FD­PIC shall su­per­vise the pro­cessing of per­son­al data re­lated to Dub­lin co­oper­a­tion. It shall co­ordin­ate this su­per­vis­ory activ­ity with the can­ton­al data pro­tec­tion au­thor­it­ies.

³ The FD­PIC shall work with the European Data Pro­tec­tion Com­mis­sion­er in or­der to carry out its tasks, for which it shall act as the na­tion­al su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity.

The right to in­form­a­tion is gov­erned by the fed­er­al and can­ton­al data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions.³⁴³ …³⁴⁴

¹ SEM may use video sur­veil­lance equip­ment and sys­tems in­side and out­side build­ings that it man­ages in con­nec­tion with the asylum pro­ced­ure and may make video and au­dio re­cord­ings in or­der to pro­tect prop­erty and per­sons, in par­tic­u­lar asylum seekers, SEM em­ploy­ees and em­ploy­ees re­spons­ible for care and se­cur­ity, from any form of threat.

² The video and au­dio re­cord­ings shall be stored for four months and then auto­mat­ic­ally des­troyed un­less they are re­quired in crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings or for an ad­min­is­trat­ive in­vest­ig­a­tion con­duc­ted by SEM.

³ The re­cord­ings may be passed on to the pro­sec­u­tion au­thor­it­ies.

⁴ SEM se­cur­ity man­agers and their su­per­i­ors may view the re­cord­ings in the course of an ad­min­is­trat­ive or crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tion.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the mod­al­it­ies of video sur­veil­lance. It shall in par­tic­u­lar spe­cify which build­ings or parts of build­ings may be placed un­der video sur­veil­lance, and reg­u­late the stor­age of re­cord­ings, their pro­tec­tion against mis­use and their han­dover to the pro­sec­u­tion au­thor­it­ies.

¹ Asylum seekers whose re­quest is pro­cessed in a fed­er­al centre have the right to free ad­vice and leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion.

² SEM shall man­date one or more pro­viders to carry out the tasks men­tioned in para­graph 1.

¹ Dur­ing their stay in a fed­er­al centre, asylum seekers shall have ac­cess to coun­selling on the asylum pro­ced­ure.

² The coun­selling shall in­clude in par­tic­u­lar in­form­ing the asylum seekers about their rights and ob­lig­a­tions in the asylum pro­ced­ure.

³ The coun­selling shall also in­clude in­form­a­tion on the com­plaints mech­an­ism in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 111 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2019/1896³⁴⁸.³⁴⁹

¹ Each asylum seeker shall be as­signed a leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive from the start of the pre­par­at­ory phase and for the re­mainder of the asylum pro­ced­ure, un­less the asylum seeker ex­pressly de­clines this.

² The leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive as­signed shall in­form the asylum seeker as quickly as pos­sible about the asylum seeker’s chances in the asylum pro­ced­ure.

³ Leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion shall last, un­der the ac­cel­er­ated and the Dub­lin pro­ced­ure, un­til a leg­ally bind­ing de­cision is taken, or un­til a de­cision is taken about car­ry­ing out an ex­ten­ded pro­ced­ure. Art­icle 102l is re­served.

⁴ Leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion shall end when the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive as­signed in­forms the asylum seeker that he or she does not wish to sub­mit an ap­peal be­cause it would have no pro­spect of suc­cess. This shall take place as quickly as pos­sible after no­ti­fic­a­tion of the de­cision to re­ject asylum.

⁵ The tasks of the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive are gov­erned by Art­icle 102k.

¹ The pro­vider un­der Art­icle 102f para­graph 2 is re­spons­ible in par­tic­u­lar for provid­ing, or­gan­ising and im­ple­ment­ing coun­selling and leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion in fed­er­al centres. It shall en­sure the qual­ity of the coun­selling and leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion.

² The pro­vider shall de­term­ine the per­sons to whom coun­selling and leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion is as­signed. It shall as­sign the per­sons re­spons­ible for leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion to the asylum seekers.

³ Per­sons pro­fes­sion­ally in­volved in coun­selling asylum seekers are al­lowed to provide coun­selling.

⁴ At­tor­neys are al­lowed to provide leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion. Per­sons with a uni­versity de­gree in law who are in­volved in coun­selling and rep­res­ent­ing asylum seekers pro­fes­sion­ally are also al­lowed to provide leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion.

⁵ There shall be a reg­u­lar ex­change of in­form­a­tion between the pro­vider and SEM, in par­tic­u­lar to co­ordin­ate tasks and en­sure qual­ity.

¹ SEM shall no­ti­fy the pro­vider of the ap­point­ments for ini­tial ques­tion­ing in the pre­par­at­ory phase, for the in­ter­view on the grounds for asylum and for fur­ther pro­ced­ur­al steps re­quir­ing in­volve­ment of the leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion. The pro­vider shall give this in­form­a­tion promptly to the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive.

² Provided the ap­point­ments are no­ti­fied in good time, SEM’s ac­tions have leg­al force even if the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive is not present or does not par­ti­cip­ate. Ex­cep­tions may be for ab­sences at short no­tice there is jus­ti­fi­able good cause.

³ If the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive does not provide an opin­ion on a draft de­cision to re­fuse asylum with­in the time lim­it, des­pite the draft de­cision be­ing sent by the pro­vider in good time, it shall be con­sidered that no view is ex­pressed.

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall, by agree­ment and on the prin­ciple that value for money will be en­sured, pay the pro­vider for the fol­low­ing tasks in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

provid­ing in­form­a­tion and coun­selling to asylum seekers;

b.

the par­ti­cip­a­tion of the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive in the ini­tial ques­tion­ing in the pre­par­at­ory phase and in the in­ter­view on the grounds for asylum;

c.

provid­ing an opin­ion on the draft asylum de­cision un­der the ac­cel­er­ated pro­ced­ure;

d.

provid­ing leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion in ap­peal pro­ceed­ings, in par­tic­u­lar pre­par­ing the ap­peal doc­u­ment­a­tion;

e.

rep­res­ent­ing the in­terests of un­ac­com­pan­ied minor asylum seekers as a trus­ted per­son at fed­er­al centres and at air­ports;

f.

in the case of al­loc­a­tion to the ex­ten­ded pro­ced­ure, pro­vi­sion of in­form­a­tion by the as­signed leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive to the leg­al ad­vice agency on the cur­rent state of pro­ceed­ings, or con­tinu­ation of leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion as­signed in pro­ced­ur­al stages rel­ev­ant to a de­cision un­der Art­icle 102l;

g.³⁵⁰

ad­vice and as­sist­ance in re­la­tion to sub­mit­ting a com­plaint un­der Art­icle 111 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2019/1896³⁵¹.

² The pay­ment shall con­tain a con­tri­bu­tion to the ad­min­is­trat­ive and staff costs in­curred by the pro­vider, in par­tic­u­lar for the or­gan­isa­tion of coun­selling and leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion, as well as a con­tri­bu­tion to in­de­pend­ent trans­la­tion. Pay­ment shall be made as a lump sum. In ex­cep­tion­al cases, the pay­ment may be based on the ac­tu­al ex­pendit­ure, es­pe­cially in the case of non-re­cur­ring costs.

¹ Fol­low­ing al­loc­a­tion to a can­ton, asylum seekers may con­tact a leg­al ad­vice agency or the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive al­loc­ated free of charge at steps of the pro­ced­ure at first in­stance rel­ev­ant to the de­cision, in par­tic­u­lar if an ad­di­tion­al in­ter­view is held on the grounds for asylum.

^1bis Fol­low­ing al­loc­a­tion to a can­ton, asylum seekers may con­tact a leg­al ad­vice agency or the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive al­loc­ated free of charge for the ad­vice and as­sist­ance un­der Art­icle 102k para­graph 1 let­ter g un­less this ad­vice and as­sist­ance has already been provided in a fed­er­al centre.³⁵³

² The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall pay the leg­al ad­vice agency for the work it car­ries out un­der para­graph 1 and 1^bis by agree­ment and on the prin­ciple that value for money will be en­sured.³⁵⁴ The pay­ment shall be made as a lump sum. In ex­cep­tion­al cases, the pay­ment may be based on the ac­tu­al ex­pendit­ure, es­pe­cially in the case of non-re­cur­ring costs.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall lay down the re­quire­ments for au­thor­isa­tion as a leg­al ad­vice agency and shall de­term­ine the pro­ced­ur­al steps rel­ev­ant to the de­cision un­der para­graph 1.

¹ The Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court shall at the re­quest of the asylum seeker, who shall be ex­emp­ted from pay­ing the pro­ced­ur­al costs, ap­point an of­fi­cial leg­al ad­viser, but only in the case of ap­peals against:

a.

de­cisions to dis­miss the ap­plic­a­tion, de­cisions to re­fuse asylum and re­turn de­cisions un­der Art­icles 31a and 44;

b.

de­cisions on the re­voc­a­tion or ex­piry of asylum un­der Art­icles 63 and 64;

c.

the ter­min­a­tion of tem­por­ary ad­mis­sion re­lat­ing to asylum seekers un­der Art­icle 84 para­graphs 2 and 3 FNIA³⁵⁶;

d.

de­cisions re­lat­ing to grant­ing tem­por­ary pro­tec­tion un­der Chapter 4 of this Act.

² An ex­cep­tion is made for ap­peals un­der para­graph 1 if they re­late to re-ex­am­in­a­tion and re­view pro­ced­ures and mul­tiple ap­plic­a­tions. For these and for the oth­er ap­peals, with the ex­cep­tion of para­graph 1, Art­icle 65 para­graph 2 of the Ad­min­is­trat­ive Pro­ced­ure Act ap­plies³⁵⁷.

³ In the case of ap­peals sub­mit­ted on the basis of this Act, per­sons with a uni­versity de­gree in law who are in­volved in coun­selling and rep­res­ent­ing asylum seekers pro­fes­sion­ally are also au­thor­ised to act as of­fi­cial leg­al ad­visers.

⁴ Para­graphs 1–3 also ap­ply to per­sons whose ap­plic­a­tion is de­cided on un­der the ac­cel­er­ated pro­ced­ure and who do not make use of leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion un­der Art­icle 102h. This also ap­plies when the leg­al rep­res­ent­at­ive as­signed un­der the ac­cel­er­ated pro­ced­ure does not make an ap­peal (Art. 102h para­graph 4).

¹ The can­tons shall provide at least one ap­pel­late au­thor­ity where ap­peals may be filed against rul­ings of can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies based on this Act and its im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions.

² Ap­peals against de­cisions by can­ton­al courts of the last in­stance are gov­erned by the gen­er­al pro­vi­sions on the ad­min­is­tra­tion of fed­er­al justice, un­less oth­er­wise provided in this Act.

Ap­peals may be filed against SEM rul­ings in ac­cord­ance with the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court Act of 17 June 2005³⁶¹.

¹ An ap­peal may be filed on the fol­low­ing grounds:

a.

the vi­ol­a­tion of fed­er­al law, in­clud­ing the ab­use and ex­ceed­ing of dis­cre­tion­ary powers;

b.

in­cor­rect and in­com­plete de­term­in­a­tion of the leg­ally rel­ev­ant cir­cum­stances;

c.³⁶³

...

² Art­icle 27 para­graph 3 and Art­icle 68 para­graph 2 re­main re­served.

¹ In­ter­im rul­ings is­sued in ap­plic­a­tion of Art­icle 10 para­graphs 1–3 and 18–48 of this Act as well as Art­icle 71 FNIA³⁶⁴ may only be con­tested by ap­peal against the fi­nal rul­ing. The con­test­ing of rul­ings re­mains re­served in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 27 para­graph 3.³⁶⁵

² The fol­low­ing are also in­de­pend­ently con­test­able, provided they may cause per­man­ent pre­ju­dice:

a.

pre­cau­tion­ary meas­ures;

b.

rul­ings by which pro­ceed­ings are sus­pen­ded, oth­er than rul­ings in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 69 para­graph 3.

³ ...³⁶⁶

¹ No sus­pens­ive ef­fect may be ap­plied to ap­peals against de­cisions to dis­miss ap­plic­a­tions made by asylum seekers who are able to travel to an­oth­er state that is re­spons­ible un­der an in­ter­na­tion­al treaty for the con­duct of asylum or re­turn pro­ceed­ings.

² The asylum seeker may ap­ply for the or­der to be sus­pen­ded with­in the dead­line for fil­ing the ap­peal.

³ The Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court shall de­cide on the mat­ter with­in five days of re­ceipt of an ap­plic­a­tion un­der para­graph 2. If sus­pen­sion is not gran­ted with­in five days, the re­mov­al may be en­forced

¹ Un­der the ac­cel­er­ated pro­ced­ure, an ap­peal against a de­cision un­der Art­icle 31a para­graph 4 must be sub­mit­ted with­in five days of no­ti­fic­a­tion of the rul­ing.

² Un­der the ex­ten­ded pro­ced­ure, an ap­peal against a de­cision un­der Art­icle 31a para­graph 4 must be filed with­in 30 days, and against in­ter­im rul­ings with­in ten days of no­ti­fic­a­tion of the rul­ing.

³ An ap­peal against de­cisions to dis­miss an ap­plic­a­tion and against rul­ings in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 23 para­graph 1 and Art­icle 40 in con­junc­tion with Art­icle 6a para­graph 2 let­ter a must be sub­mit­ted with­in five work­ing days of no­ti­fic­a­tion of the rul­ing.

⁴ Deni­al of entry in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 22 para­graph 2 may be con­tested un­til no­ti­fic­a­tion of the rul­ing in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 23 para­graph 1.

⁵ A re­view of the leg­al­ity and the ap­pro­pri­ate­ness of the al­loc­a­tion of a place of stay at the air­port or at an­oth­er ap­pro­pri­ate place in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 22 para­graphs 3 and 4 may be re­ques­ted by means of ap­peal at any time.

⁶ In oth­er cases, the time lim­it for ap­peals is 30 days from no­ti­fic­a­tion of the rul­ing.

⁷ Writ­ten leg­al sub­mis­sions sent by fax are leg­ally bind­ing if they reach the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court with­in the no­tice peri­od and are sup­ple­men­ted by fil­ing the signed ori­gin­al sub­sequently in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 52 para­graphs 2 and 3 of the Fed­er­al Act of 20 Decem­ber 1968³⁶⁹ on Ad­min­is­trat­ive Pro­ced­ure.

If the per­son seek­ing asylum is the sub­ject of an ap­plic­a­tion for ex­tra­di­tion in ac­cord­ance with the Mu­tu­al As­sist­ance Act of 20 March 1981³⁷¹, the ap­peal au­thor­it­ies shall con­sult the files on the ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings when de­cid­ing on ap­peal re­lat­ing to the asylum ap­plic­a­tion.

¹ Un­der the ac­cel­er­ated pro­ced­ure, the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court nor­mally de­cides with­in 20 days on ap­peals against de­cisions un­der Art­icle 31a para­graph 4.

²Un­der the ex­ten­ded pro­ced­ure, the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court de­cides on ap­peals against de­cisions un­der Art­icle 31a para­graph 4 with­in 30 days.

³ In the case of ap­peals against de­cisions to dis­miss an ap­plic­a­tion and against rul­ings un­der Art­icle 23 para­graph 1 and Art­icle 40 in con­junc­tion with Art­icle 6a para­graph 2 let­ter a, it nor­mally de­cides with­in 5 work­ing days.

⁴ The time lim­its laid down in para­graphs 1 and 3 may be ex­ceeded by a few days if there are val­id reas­ons.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court de­cides on ap­peals against de­cisions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 22 para­graphs 2–3 and 4 without delay on the basis of the files.

⁶ In oth­er cases, the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court shall de­cide on ap­peals with­in 20 days.

⁷ It shall de­cide ex­cep­tion­ally and im­me­di­ately if the per­son seek­ing asylum is in de­ten­tion pending ex­tra­di­tion on the basis of a re­quest by a state in re­spect of which the asylum seeker is seek­ing pro­tec­tion in Switzer­land. This also ap­plies when the asylum seeker has been made sub­ject to an ex­pul­sion or­der un­der Art­icle 66a or 66a^bis SCC³⁷³ or Art­icle 49a or 49a^bis MCC³⁷⁴ or an ex­pul­sion or­der un­der Art­icle 68 FNIA³⁷⁵.³⁷⁶

A reg­u­lar ex­change of in­form­a­tion shall take place between the FD­JP and the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court on the pri­or­it­isa­tion and ad­min­is­trat­ive pro­cessing of pro­ceed­ings of first and second in­stance.

The Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court shall ad­opt a pro­cessing strategy; in do­ing so, it shall take ac­count of:

a.

SEM pro­cessing strategy un­der Art­icle 37b;

b.

the stat­utory ap­peal and pro­cessing dead­lines.

¹ The ad­di­tion­al peri­od al­lowed for the amend­ment of the ap­peal amounts to sev­en days, and in the case of ap­peals against de­cisions to dis­miss an ap­plic­a­tion and de­cisions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 23 para­graph 1, un­der Art­icle 40 in con­junc­tion with Art­icle 6a para­graph 2 let­ter a, and rul­ings un­der Art­icle 111b, three days.³⁷⁹

² The time lim­it for fur­nish­ing evid­ence is sev­en days if the evid­ence must be ob­tained in Switzer­land, and 30 days for evid­ence that must be ob­tained abroad. Ex­pert re­ports must be pro­duced with­in 30 days.

³ The time lim­it un­der para­graph 2 may be ex­ten­ded if the ap­pel­lant or their rep­res­ent­at­ive is pre­ven­ted from act­ing with­in this time lim­it, in par­tic­u­lar due to ill­ness or ac­ci­dent.³⁸⁰

⁴ The dead­line for pro­ceed­ings is at the most two work­ing days in the case of pro­ceed­ings re­lat­ing to the deni­al of entry in­to Switzer­land and the al­loc­a­tion of a place of stay at the air­port in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 22 para­graphs2–3 and 4.³⁸¹

¹ The fol­low­ing cases may be heard by a single judge:

a.

the dis­missal of ap­peals due to ir­rel­ev­ance;

b.

sum­mary dis­missal of mani­festly un­law­ful ap­peals;

c.

the de­cision re­l­at­ive to the pre­lim­in­ary deni­al of entry at the air­port and the al­loc­a­tion of a place of stay at the air­port;

d.³⁸⁴

...

e.

with con­sent of a second judge: ap­peals that are clearly with or without jus­ti­fic­a­tion.

¹ The Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court may dis­pense with an ex­change of writ­ten sub­mis­sions.³⁸⁶

² Ap­peal de­cisions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 111 need only be sum­mar­ily sub­stan­ti­ated.

¹ In the ap­peal pro­ced­ure against de­cisions on asylum un­der Art­icle 31a of this Act is­sued un­der the ac­cel­er­ated or the Dub­lin pro­ced­ure, the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court may carry out pre­par­at­ory meas­ures in fed­er­al centres un­der Art­icle 39 para­graph 2 of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court Act of 17 June 2005³⁸⁸ if this means that the ap­peal can be de­cided on more quickly.

² Or­al no­ti­fic­a­tion of the judg­ment is per­mit­ted. The or­al no­ti­fic­a­tion to­geth­er with a sum­mary jus­ti­fic­a­tion must be re­cor­ded in minutes.

³ The parties may re­quest a com­plete copy of the judg­ment with­in 5 days of or­al no­ti­fic­a­tion of the judg­ment. This does not mean that en­force­ab­il­ity of the judg­ment is de­ferred.

In the ap­peal pro­ced­ure against de­cisions on asylum un­der Art­icle 31a which have been is­sued un­der the ac­cel­er­ated or the Dub­lin pro­ced­ure, no party costs shall be awar­ded. If the asylum seeker has not made use of leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion un­der Art­icle 102h or has not made use of leg­al rep­res­ent­a­tion when mak­ing an ap­peal (Art. 102hpara­graph 4), the gen­er­al pro­vi­sions on the ad­min­is­tra­tion of fed­er­al justice ap­ply.

¹ An ap­plic­a­tion for re-ex­am­in­a­tion must be sub­mit­ted to SEM in writ­ing and with a state­ment of grounds with­in 30 days of identi­fy­ing the grounds for re-ex­am­in­a­tion. There is no pre­par­at­ory phase.³⁹²

² De­cisions to dis­miss an ap­plic­a­tion must nor­mally be made with­in five work­ing days of sub­mis­sion of an ap­plic­a­tion for re-ex­am­in­a­tion. In oth­er cases, de­cisions must nor­mally be made with­in ten work­ing days of the ap­plic­a­tion be­ing sub­mit­ted.

³ The sub­mis­sion of an ap­plic­a­tion for re-ex­am­in­a­tion does not delay en­force­ment. The au­thor­ity re­spons­ible for pro­cessing may sus­pend en­force­ment on re­quest if there is a spe­cif­ic danger to the ap­plic­ant in his or her nat­ive coun­try or coun­try of ori­gin.

⁴ Ap­plic­a­tions for re-ex­am­in­a­tion without a state­ment of grounds or re­peat ap­plic­a­tions that state the same grounds shall be dis­missed without a form­al de­cision be­ing taken.

¹ Ap­plic­a­tions for asylum made with­in five years of the asylum and re­turn de­cision be­com­ing leg­ally bind­ing must be sub­mit­ted in writ­ing with a state­ment of the grounds. There is no pre­par­at­ory phase. The grounds for dis­missal un­der Art­icle 31a para­graphs 1–3 ap­ply.³⁹⁴

² Mul­tiple ap­plic­a­tions or re­peat ap­plic­a­tions that state the same grounds shall be dis­missed without a form­al de­cision be­ing taken

¹ SEM shall charge a fee if it re­jects or dis­misses an ap­plic­a­tion for re-ex­am­in­a­tion or a mul­tiple ap­plic­a­tion. If a re­quest or ap­plic­a­tion is ap­proved in part, the fee is re­duced. No com­pens­a­tion is paid.

² SEM shall on re­quest ex­empt the ap­plic­ant fol­low­ing sub­mis­sion of re-ex­am­in­a­tion or mul­tiple ap­plic­a­tions from hav­ing to pay pro­ced­ur­al costs provided he or she is in fin­an­cial need and the ap­plic­a­tion does not ap­pear prima facie without mer­it.

³ SEM may re­quest the ap­plic­ant to make an ad­vance pay­ment of fees equi­val­ent to the prob­able pro­ced­ur­al costs. It shall al­low an ap­pro­pri­ate peri­od for pay­ment to be made, un­der threat of dis­missal for fail­ure to do so. An ad­vance pay­ment of fees shall not be re­ques­ted:

a.

if the re­quire­ments of para­graph 2 are met; or

b.

in pro­ceed­ings in­volving un­ac­com­pan­ied minors, provided the re-ex­am­in­a­tion or mul­tiple ap­plic­a­tion does not ap­pear prima facie without mer­it.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the as­sess­ment of the fee and the level of the ad­vance pay­ment.

For the dur­a­tion of ap­peal pro­ceed­ings, the lim­it­a­tion peri­od for fin­an­cial claims by the Con­fed­er­a­tion against re­cip­i­ents of sub­sidies or so­cial as­sist­ance does not be­gin or is sus­pen­ded if it has already be­gun.

The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall par­ti­cip­ate in the har­mon­isa­tion of European refugee policy at in­ter­na­tion­al level as well as in the res­ol­u­tion of refugee prob­lems abroad. It shall sup­port the activ­it­ies of in­ter­na­tion­al char­it­able or­gan­isa­tions. It shall in par­tic­u­lar work with the United Na­tions High Com­mis­sion­er for Refugees.

The Fed­er­al Coun­cil, in im­ple­ment­a­tion of a mi­gra­tion frame­work cred­it ap­proved on the basis of Art­icle 91 para­graph 7 in con­junc­tion with Art­icle 113 or Art­icle 93 para­graph 1 let­ter c and para­graph 2, may enter in­to in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments on the pay­ment of con­tri­bu­tions to se­lec­ted EU mem­ber states or to in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions. It shall con­sult the com­pet­ent com­mit­tees be­fore­hand.

Any per­son who com­mits any of the fol­low­ing acts is li­able to a mon­et­ary pen­alty not ex­ceed­ing 180 daily pen­alty units, un­less the act con­sti­tutes a felony or mis­de­mean­our that car­ries a high­er pen­alty un­der the SCC⁴⁰⁶:⁴⁰⁷

a.

ob­tain­ing, on the basis of this Act, for them­selves or for an­oth­er by provid­ing false or in­com­plete in­form­a­tion or in an­oth­er way a pe­cu­ni­ary ad­vant­age that is not theirs by right;

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b.⁴⁰⁸ com­pletely or partly evad­ing the duty to pay the spe­cial charge in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 86 by provid­ing false or in­com­plete in­form­a­tion or in an­oth­er way;

c.⁴⁰⁹

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d.⁴¹⁰ as­sists a per­son to com­mit an of­fence un­der Art­icle 116 let­ter c with a view to his or her own fin­an­cial gain, in par­tic­u­lar through plan­ning or or­gan­isa­tion.

Any per­son who com­mits any of the fol­low­ing acts is li­able to a fine, un­less the act con­sti­tutes an of­fence un­der Art­icle 115:

a.

vi­ol­at­ing the ob­lig­a­tion to provide in­form­a­tion by know­ingly provid­ing false in­form­a­tion or re­fus­ing to provide in­form­a­tion;

b.

res­ist­ing a check in­struc­ted by the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity or ren­der­ing this im­possible in an­oth­er way;

c.⁴¹¹

car­ries out pub­lic polit­ic­al activ­it­ies as an asylum seeker in Switzer­land solely with the in­ten­tion of es­tab­lish­ing sub­ject­ive post-flight grounds with­in the mean­ing of Art­icle 54;

d.⁴¹²

as­sists a per­son to com­mit an of­fence un­der let­ter c, in par­tic­u­lar through plan­ning or or­gan­isa­tion.

Any per­son who pro­cesses per­son­al data stored in Eurodac for a pur­pose oth­er than to es­tab­lish which state is re­spons­ible for ex­amin­ing an ap­plic­a­tion for asylum made by a cit­izen of a third coun­try in a state sub­ject to the Dub­lin As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments is li­able to a fine.

Pro­sec­u­tion is the re­spons­ib­il­ity of the can­tons.

The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall be re­spons­ible for im­ple­ment­a­tion. It shall is­sue the im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions.

The fol­low­ing are re­pealed:

a.

the Asylum Act of 5 Oc­to­ber 1979⁴¹⁸;

b.

the Fed­er­al De­cree of 16 Decem­ber 1994⁴¹⁹ on Eco­nomy Meas­ures in the Sphere of Asylum and For­eign Na­tion­als.

¹ The new law ap­plies to pro­ceed­ings pending on the com­mence­ment of this Act.

² Pending pro­ceed­ings on the grant­ing of a res­id­ence per­mit by the im­mig­ra­tion au­thor­it­ies in ac­cord­ance with the pri­or Art­icle 17 para­graph 2 shall be­come ir­rel­ev­ant.

³ The Ap­peals Com­mis­sion and the FD­JP shall re­tain jur­is­dic­tion over any ap­peals pending be­fore them on the com­mence­ment of this Act, sub­ject to para­graph 2 above.

⁴ On the com­mence­ment of this Act, the pro­vi­sions of Chapter 4 shall ap­ply to groups of for­eign na­tion­als tem­por­ar­ily ad­mit­ted in ac­cord­ance with the cur­rent Art­icle 14a para­graph 5 of the Fed­er­al Act of 26 March 1931⁴²⁰ on the Res­id­ence and Per­man­ent Set­tle­ment of For­eign Na­tion­als. The length of stay of per­sons tem­por­ar­ily ad­mit­ted in groups shall be taken in­to ac­count when cal­cu­lat­ing the time lim­its in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 74 para­graphs 2 and 3.

⁵ The pre­vi­ous law shall ap­ply for up to two years after the com­mence­ment of this Act in re­la­tion to the pay­ment of so­cial as­sist­ance be­ne­fits to refugees with a res­id­ence per­mit.

If a ref­er­en­dum is sought on the Fed­er­al De­cree of 26 June 1998 on Emer­gency Meas­ures in the Sphere of Asylum and For­eign Na­tion­als and it is re­jec­ted in a pop­u­lar vote, the pro­vi­sions lis­ted be­low shall be de­leted:

a.

Art­icle 8 para­graph 4 (duty to co­oper­ate in the ac­quis­i­tion of val­id travel doc­u­ments),

b.

Art­icle 32 para­graph 2 let­ter a (dis­missal of the ap­plic­a­tion in the event of fail­ure to sub­mit travel doc­u­ments or iden­tity pa­pers),

c.

Art­icle 33 (dis­missal of the ap­plic­a­tion in the event of im­prop­er fil­ing of an asylum ap­plic­a­tion),

d.

Art­icle 32 para­graph 2 let­ter b (dis­missal of the ap­plic­a­tion in the event of iden­tity fraud); in this case, the con­tent of Art­icle 16 para­graph 1 let­ter b shall be in­ser­ted in the ver­sion in ac­cord­ance with Num­ber I of the Fed­er­al De­cree of 22 June 1990⁴²² on Asylum Pro­ced­ures in­stead of the de­leted pro­vi­sion of Art­icle 32 para­graph 2 let­ter b; and

e.

Art­icle 45 para­graph 2 (im­me­di­ate im­ple­ment­a­tion of de­cisions to dis­miss ap­plic­a­tions); in this case, the con­tent of Art­icle 17apara­graph 2 shall be in­ser­ted in the ver­sion in ac­cord­ance with Num­ber II of the Fed­er­al Act of 18 March 1994⁴²³ on Co­er­cive Meas­ures un­der the Law on For­eign Na­tion­als in­stead of the de­leted pro­vi­sion of Art­icle 45 para­graph 2 after the ad­just­ment of the art­icle ref­er­ences.

¹ This Act is sub­ject to an op­tion­al ref­er­en­dum.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the com­mence­ment date.

Com­mence­ment date: 1 Oc­to­ber 1999⁴²⁴