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

¹ In or­der to im­ple­ment the read­mis­sion and trans­it agree­ments men­tioned in Art­icle 100, SEM and the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies of the can­tons may also dis­close the re­quired per­son­al data to states that do not provide a level of data pro­tec­tion equi­val­ent to that in Switzer­land.

² For the pur­pose of the read­mis­sion of its cit­izens, the fol­low­ing data may be dis­closed to an­oth­er con­tract­ing state:

a.

bio­graph­ic­al data (sur­name, first name, ali­as, date of birth, place of birth, sex, na­tion­al­ity, last ad­dress in the nat­ive coun­try or coun­try of ori­gin) of the for­eign na­tion­al and, if ne­ces­sary, of the next of kin;

b.

in­form­a­tion about the pass­port or oth­er iden­tity cards;

c.

bio­met­ric data;

d.

fur­ther data re­quired for the iden­ti­fic­a­tion of a per­son;

e.

in­form­a­tion on the state of health, as far as this is in the in­terests of the per­son con­cerned;

f.

the data re­quired for en­sur­ing entry to the des­tin­a­tion coun­try as well as for the se­cur­ity of the ac­com­pa­ny­ing per­sons;

g.

in­form­a­tion on crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings, in­so­far as this is re­quired in spe­cif­ic cases to pro­cess read­mis­sion and to safe­guard pub­lic se­cur­ity and or­der in the nat­ive coun­try and provided the per­son is not en­dangered as a res­ult; Art­icle 2 of the Fed­er­al Act of 20 March 1981³⁶⁷ on In­ter­na­tion­al Mu­tu­al As­sist­ance in Crim­in­al Mat­ters ap­plies mu­tatis mutandis.

³ For the pur­pose of the trans­it of mem­bers of third coun­tries, the fol­low­ing data may be dis­closed to the oth­er con­tract­ing state:

a.

data in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2;

b.

in­form­a­tion on the places of stay and routes trav­elled;

c.

in­form­a­tion on the reg­u­la­tion of the peri­od of stay and the visas gran­ted.

⁴ Pur­pose lim­it­a­tion, any se­cur­ity meas­ures and the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies must be defined in the read­mis­sion or trans­it agree­ment.