Federal Act on Foreign Nationals and Integration

¹SEM and the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies en­trus­ted with car­ry­ing out the re­turn pro­ced­ure may in provid­ing re­turn as­sist­ance del­eg­ate spe­cif­ic tasks to the re­turn coun­selling agen­cies (Art. 93 para. 1 let. a AsylA¹) and in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions (Art. 93 para. 3 AsylA). They may del­eg­ate tasks to oth­er third parties in con­nec­tion with or­gan­ising the re­turn un­der Art­icle 71 let­ter b of this Act.

²SEM may grant third parties that have been del­eg­ated tasks ac­cess to the data in the In­form­a­tion Sys­tem that they re­quire to ful­fil their man­date:

a.

for tasks in con­nec­tion with re­turn as­sist­ance and coun­selling;

b.

for tasks re­lated to pre­par­ing for de­par­ture at the air­port;

c.

for as­sess­ing the fit­ness of the per­son con­cerned to travel and for de­cid­ing on any med­ic­al as­sist­ance re­quired.

³SEM shall en­sure that the third parties com­ply with the reg­u­la­tions on data pro­tec­tion and on in­form­a­tion tech­no­logy se­cur­ity.

⁴The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­cide which cat­egor­ies per­son­al data in the in­form­a­tion sys­tem may be pro­cessed by the third parties that have been del­eg­ated tasks men­tioned in para­graph 1 above.