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

¹ The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may enter and pro­cess data in the EES on­line in ac­cord­ance with Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2017/2226³⁴⁵:

a.

the Bor­der Guard and the can­ton­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the con­trolling the Schen­gen ex­tern­al bor­ders: to ful­fil their du­ties in re­la­tion to bor­der con­trol;

b.

SEM, the Swiss rep­res­ent­a­tions abroad and the mis­sions, the can­ton­al mi­gra­tion au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for is­su­ing visas and the com­mun­al au­thor­it­ies to which the can­tons have del­eg­ated such re­spons­ib­il­it­ies: in re­la­tion to the re­voc­a­tion, can­cel­la­tion or ex­ten­sion of a visa or of a per­mit­ted stay of a max­im­um of 90 days in any peri­od of 180 days;

c.

the Bor­der Guard, the can­ton­al and com­mun­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies and the can­ton­al and com­mun­al mi­gra­tion au­thor­it­ies: to veri­fy that a stay in Switzer­land is law­ful and to cre­ate and up­date the EES file.

² The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may con­sult the data in the EES on­line:

a.

the Bor­der Guard and the can­ton­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for con­trolling the Schen­gen ex­tern­al bor­ders: to con­duct the con­trols at the Schen­gen ex­tern­al bor­der cross­ing points and on Swiss sov­er­eign ter­rit­ory;

b.

SEM, the Swiss rep­res­ent­a­tions abroad and the mis­sions, the can­ton­al mi­gra­tion au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for is­su­ing visas and the com­mun­al au­thor­it­ies to which the can­tons have del­eg­ated such re­spons­ib­il­it­ies, the FD­FA State Sec­ret­ari­at and Dir­ect­or­ate of Polit­ic­al Af­fairs, and the Bor­der Guard and the can­ton­al po­lice bor­der posts: in re­la­tion to the visa pro­ced­ure via the Cent­ral Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (C-VIS) (Art. 109a);

c.

the Bor­der Guard, the can­ton­al and com­mun­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies that carry out checks on per­sons, SEM and the can­ton­al and com­mun­al mi­gra­tion au­thor­it­ies: for the pur­pose of check­ing the re­quire­ments for entry or stay in Switzer­land and in or­der to identi­fy for­eign na­tion­als who may have been re­gistered in the EES un­der an­oth­er iden­tity or who do not or no longer meet the re­quire­ments for en­ter­ing or stay­ing in Switzer­land.

³ The au­thor­it­ies un­der para­graph 2 may con­sult the data on­line that the auto­mated cal­cu­lat­or un­der Art­icle 11 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2017/2226 provides.

⁴ The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may re­quest EES data from the cent­ral ac­cess point un­der para­graph 6 in or­der to pre­vent, de­tect or in­vest­ig­ate ter­ror­ist or oth­er ser­i­ous of­fences:³⁴⁶

a.

fed­pol;

b.

the FIS;

c.

the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of Switzer­land;

d.

the can­ton­al po­lice and pro­sec­u­tion au­thor­it­ies and the po­lice au­thor­it­ies of the cit­ies of Zurich, Win­ter­thur, Lausanne, Chi­asso and Lugano.

⁵ If the FIS pro­cesses data trans­mit­ted on the basis of a re­quest in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 4, the Schen­gen Data Pro­tec­tion Act of 28 septem­ber 2018³⁴⁷ ap­plies.³⁴⁸

⁶ The cent­ral ac­cess point un­der Art­icle 29 para­graph 3 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2017/2226 is the fed­pol Op­er­a­tions Centre.³⁴⁹