Federal Act
on Foreign Nationals and Integration
(Foreign Nationals and Integration Act, FNIA)¹

¹ The au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for bor­der con­trols at air­ports may op­er­ate an auto­mated bor­der con­trol pro­ced­ure. This has the aim of sim­pli­fy­ing checks on par­ti­cipants when they enter and leave the Schen­gen area.

² Ex­clus­ively en­titled to par­ti­cip­ate in the auto­mated bor­der con­trol pro­ced­ure are per­sons who:

a.

hold Swiss cit­izen­ship; or

b.³¹⁰

hold rights un­der the AFMP³¹¹ or the EFTA Con­ven­tion³¹².

³ Par­ti­cip­a­tion re­quires a bio­met­ric pass­port or a par­ti­cip­a­tion card on which bio­met­ric data is stored. In or­der to is­sue the par­ti­cip­a­tion card, the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for bor­der con­trols may re­cord bio­met­ric data.

⁴ On cross­ing the bor­der, the data held in the bio­met­ric pass­port or on the par­ti­cip­a­tion card may be com­pared with the data in the com­pu­ter­ised po­lice search sys­tem (RI­POL) and the Schen­gen In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (SIS).

⁵ The au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for bor­der con­trols shall op­er­ate an in­form­a­tion sys­tem for the pro­cessing of per­son­al data re­lat­ing to those per­sons who re­quire a par­ti­cip­a­tion card for the auto­mated bor­der con­trol pro­ced­ure. The in­form­a­tion sys­tem shall not con­tain any bio­met­ric data. The per­sons con­cerned shall be in­formed in ad­vance of the pur­pose of the data pro­cessing and the cat­egor­ies of data re­cip­i­ent.

⁶ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the re­gis­tra­tion pro­ced­ure, the re­quire­ments for par­ti­cip­a­tion in the auto­mated bor­der con­trol pro­ced­ure, the or­gan­isa­tion and op­er­a­tion of the in­form­a­tion sys­tem and the list of per­son­al data to be pro­cessed in the in­form­a­tion sys­tem.