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

¹ SEM shall main­tain an in­tern­al in­form­a­tion sys­tem on re­fus­als of entry in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 65 (IN­AD Sys­tem). It shall be used when im­pos­ing pen­al­ties for vi­ol­a­tions of the duty of care un­der Art­icle 122a, and to com­pile stat­ist­ics.

² The sys­tem shall con­tain the fol­low­ing data on per­sons who have been re­fused entry to the Schen­gen area:

a.

sur­name, first name, sex, date of birth, na­tion­al­ity;

b.

de­tails of the flight;

c.

reas­on why entry was re­fused;

d.

de­tails of pro­ceed­ings for vi­ol­a­tions of the duty of care un­der Art­icle 122a in con­nec­tion with the per­son con­cerned.

³ The data re­cor­ded in the sys­tem shall be an­onymised after two years.

⁴ At the bor­der cross­ing, the data con­tained in the bio­met­ric pass­port or on the par­ti­cip­a­tion card may be com­pared with the data in the com­pu­ter­ised po­lice search sys­tem (RI­POL) and the SIS.³⁵⁴