Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ SEM shall op­er­ate an in­form­a­tion sys­tem for fed­er­al centres and air­port ac­com­mod­a­tion (MIDES).

² MIDES serves as an aid in:

a.

the pro­cessing of per­son­al data re­lat­ing to asylum seekers and per­sons in need of pro­tec­tion, in­clud­ing sens­it­ive per­son­al data and per­son­al­ity pro­files in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 3 let­ters c and d of the FADP³⁰²; and

b.

audits, the con­duct of asylum pro­ced­ures and the plan­ning and or­gan­isa­tion of ac­com­mod­a­tion.

³ MIDES con­tains the fol­low­ing per­son­al data:

a.

data on the iden­tity of the re­gistered per­sons, and in par­tic­u­lar their sur­name, name, sex, date and place of birth, na­tion­al­ity, eth­nic ori­gin, re­li­gion, mar­it­al status, ad­dress and par­ents' names;

b.³⁰³

minutes of the sum­mary ques­tion­ing con­duc­ted at fed­er­al centres and at the air­ports in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 22 para­graph 1 and 26 para­graph 3;

c.

bio­met­ric data;

d.

de­tails of the ac­com­mod­a­tion;

e.

the status of the pro­ceed­ings;

f.³⁰⁴

the note «med­ic­al case», for the pur­pose of dis­trib­ut­ing asylum seekers among the can­tons.

⁴ The per­son­al data in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 3 let­ters a, c, e and f shall be entered in ZEMIS.³⁰⁵

⁵ The asylum seekers and per­sons in need of pro­tec­tion must in par­tic­u­lar be in­formed of the reas­ons for pro­cessing the data and the cat­egor­ies of data re­cip­i­ent.