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

¹ The ar­rival of flight pas­sen­gers may be mon­itored us­ing tech­nic­al iden­ti­fic­a­tion pro­ced­ures. The au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for bor­der con­trols (Art. 7 and 9) shall use the col­lec­ted data:³⁴⁷

a.

to de­term­ine the air car­ri­er in­volved and the place of de­par­ture of for­eign na­tion­als who do not ful­fil the entry re­quire­ments;

b.

to check all in­com­ing per­sons against the data stored in the search sys­tems.

² The com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies shall no­ti­fy the FIS if they dis­cov­er a spe­cif­ic threat to in­tern­al or the ex­tern­al se­cur­ity dur­ing this mon­it­or­ing. They may for­ward the cor­res­pond­ing data with the re­port.³⁴⁸

³ The col­lec­ted data must be erased with­in 30 days. If it is re­quired for pending crim­in­al, asylum pro­ceed­ings or pro­ceed­ings un­der the law on for­eign na­tion­als, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide for spe­cif­ic data to be stored for a longer peri­od.

⁴ The Con­fed­er­a­tion may pay the can­tons where the in­ter­na­tion­al air­ports are loc­ated con­tri­bu­tions to the costs of su­per­vi­sion in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the spe­cific­a­tions that a fa­cial re­cog­ni­tion sys­tem must sat­is­fy, as well as the de­tails of the mon­it­or­ing pro­ced­ure and the passing on of in­form­a­tion to the FIS.³⁴⁹