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

1 Amended by No I of the FA of 16 Dec. 2016 (Integration), in force since 1 Jan. 2019 (AS 2017 6521, 2018 3171; BBl 2013 2397, 2016 2821).


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Art. 109a Consultation of data in the Central Visa Information System 377

1 The C-VIS con­tains the visa data from all the states to which Reg­u­la­tion (EC) No. 767/2008378 ap­plies.379

2 The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may con­sult C-VIS data on­line:

a.380
SEM, Swiss rep­res­ent­a­tions abroad and mis­sions, the can­ton­al mi­gra­tion au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the visa and the com­mun­al au­thor­it­ies to which the can­tons have del­eg­ated these re­spons­ib­il­it­ies, the State Sec­ret­ari­at and the Dir­ect­or­ate of Polit­ic­al Af­fairs of the FD­FA, the Bor­der Guard and the bor­der posts of the can­ton­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies: in the course of the visa pro­ced­ure;
b.381
SEM: to de­term­ine the state re­spons­ible for as­sess­ing an asylum ap­plic­a­tion un­der Reg­u­la­tion (EC) No. 604/2013382 and in the course of as­sess­ing an asylum ap­plic­a­tion if Switzer­land is re­spons­ible for its pro­cessing;
c.
the Bor­der Guard and the can­ton­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for checks at the Schen­gen ex­tern­al bor­ders: to con­duct checks at the ex­tern­al bor­der cross­ing points and on Swiss sov­er­eign ter­rit­ory;
d.383
the Bor­der Guard and the can­ton­al and com­mun­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies that con­duct checks on per­sons: to identi­fy per­sons who do not or who no longer ful­fil the re­quire­ments for entry in­to Swiss sov­er­eign ter­rit­ory or for a stay in Switzer­land.

3 The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may re­quest spe­cif­ic C-VIS data from the cent­ral ac­cess point un­der para­graph 5 in ap­plic­a­tion of De­cision 2008/633/JI384 in or­der to pre­vent de­tect or in­vest­ig­ate ter­ror­ist of­fences or oth­er ser­i­ous crim­in­al of­fences:385

a.
fed­pol;
b.
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.

4 …386

5 The cent­ral ac­cess point in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 3 para­graph 3 of De­cision 2008/633/JI is the fed­pol op­er­a­tions centre.387

377 In­ser­ted by Art. 2 No 1 of the FD of 11 Dec. 2009 on the Ap­prov­al and Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the Ex­change of Notes between Switzer­land and the EU on the Ad­op­tion of the Reg­u­la­tion and De­cision con­cern­ing the Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (VIS), in force since 11 Oct. 2011 (AS 2010 2063, 20114449; BBl 2009 4245).

378 Reg­u­la­tion (EC) No 767/2008 of the European Par­lia­ment and of the Coun­cil of 9 Ju­ly 2008con­cern­ing the Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (VIS) and the ex­change of data between Mem­ber States on short-stay visas (VIS Reg­u­la­tion), OJ. L 218 of 13.8.2008, p. 60; last amended by Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2017/2226, OJ L 327 of 9.12.2017, p. 20.

379 Amended by the An­nex to the FD of 21 June 2019 (Ad­op­tion of the Le­gis­la­tion for Es­tab­lish­ing and Us­ing an Entry and Exit Sys­tem [EES], Reg­u­la­tions [EU] 2017/2226 and 2017/2225), in force since 1 May 2022 (AS 2021 732; BBl 2019 175).

380 Amended by No I of the FA of 26 Sept. 2014, in force since 1 March 2015 (AS 2015 533; BBl 20143373).

381 Amended by An­nex No I 1 of the FD of 26 Sept. 2014 (Ad­op­tion of R[EU] No 604/2013 es­tab­lish­ing the cri­ter­ia and mech­an­isms for de­term­in­ing the Mem­ber State re­spons­ible for ex­amin­ing an ap­plic­a­tion for in­ter­na­tion­al pro­tec­tion), in force since 1 Ju­ly 2015 (AS 2015 1841; BBl 2014 2675).

382 See foot­note to Art. 64a para. 1.

383 Amended by No I of the FA of 14 Dec. 2018 (Pro­ced­ur­al Ar­range­ments and In­form­a­tion Sys­tems), in force since 1 April 2020 (AS 2019 1413, 2020 881; BBl 2018 1685).

384 Coun­cil De­cision 2008/633/JI of 23 June 2008 con­cern­ing ac­cess for con­sulta­tion of the Visa In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (VIS) by des­ig­nated au­thor­it­ies of Mem­ber States and by Euro­pol for the pur­poses of the pre­ven­tion, de­tec­tion and in­vest­ig­a­tion of ter­ror­ist of­fences and of oth­er ser­i­ous crim­in­al of­fences, OJ. L 218 of 13.8.2008, p. 129.

385 Amended by No I of the FA of 25 Sept. 2020 (Ap­plic­a­tion of the Schen­gen Data Pro­tec­tion Act to the Fed­er­al In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice), in force since 1 April 2023 (AS 2023 147; BBl 2020 2885).

386 Re­pealed by No III of the FA of 25 Sept. 2020 (Ap­plic­a­tion of the Schen­gen Data Pro­tec­tion Act to the Fed­er­al In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice), with ef­fect from 1 Sept. 2023 (AS 2023 147; BBl 2020 2885).

387 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 25 Sept. 2020 (Ap­plic­a­tion of the Schen­gen Data Pro­tec­tion Act to the Fed­er­al In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice), in force since 1 April 2023 (AS 2023 147; BBl 2020 2885).

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