Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ With­in the frame­work of the ap­plic­a­tion of the Dub­lin As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments³³⁰ SEM is re­spons­ible for deal­ings with the Cent­ral Unit of the Eurodac Sys­tem.

² It shall trans­mit the fol­low­ing data to the Cent­ral Unit:

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a. the place and date of the ap­plic­a­tion in Switzer­land;

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b. the sex of the ap­plic­ant;

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c. the fin­ger­prints taken in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 99 para­graph 1;

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d. the Swiss code num­ber for the fin­ger­prints;

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e. the date on which the fin­ger­prints were taken;

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f. the date on which the data was trans­mit­ted to the Cent­ral Unit.

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g. the user pass­word.³³¹

^2bis If the con­di­tion of the fin­gers of the per­son con­cerned do not al­low fin­ger­prints to be taken, the fin­ger­prints must be trans­mit­ted to the Cent­ral Unit with­in 48 hours of fin­ger­prints of ac­cept­able qual­ity be­ing taken. If it is im­possible to take fin­ger­prints due to the state of health of the per­son con­cerned or due to pub­lic health meas­ures, the fin­ger­prints must be trans­mit­ted to the Cent­ral Unit with­in 48 hours of the im­ped­i­ment ceas­ing to ap­ply.³³²

^2ter If the trans­mis­sion of data is pre­ven­ted by ser­i­ous tech­nic­al prob­lems, an ad­di­tion­al peri­od of 48 hours shall be al­lowed in or­der to take the meas­ures re­quired to en­sure that the sys­tem op­er­ates cor­rectly again.³³³

^2quater SEM shall also trans­mit the fol­low­ing data to the Cent­ral Unit:

a.

on the ad­mis­sion of a per­son un­der Reg­u­la­tion (EU) No 604/2013³³⁴: the time of ar­rival in Switzer­land;

b.

on the read­mis­sion of a per­son un­der Reg­u­la­tion (EU) No 604/2013: the time of ar­rival in Switzer­land;

c.

on proof that an ap­plic­ant whose ap­plic­a­tion must be pro­cessed by Switzer­land un­der Reg­u­la­tion (EU) No 604/2013 has left the ter­rit­ory of the states bound by any one of the Dub­lin As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments: the time of de­par­ture;

d.

on suc­cess­ful en­force­ment of re­mov­al, the time of the de­port­a­tion or de­par­ture of the ap­plic­ant from the ter­rit­ory of the states bound by any one of the Dub­lin As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments;

e.

if Switzer­land, based on the sov­er­eignty clause in Reg­u­la­tion (EU) No 604/2013, de­cides vol­un­tar­ily to be­come the Dub­lin state re­spons­ible for pro­cessing an asylum ap­plic­a­tion: the time of this de­cision.³³⁵

³ The trans­mit­ted data shall be stored in the Eurodac data­base and auto­mat­ic­ally com­pared with the data already stored in this data­base. The res­ult of the com­par­is­on shall be com­mu­nic­ated to SEM.³³⁶

⁴ The data shall be auto­mat­ic­ally erased by the Cent­ral Unit ten years after the fin­ger­prints were taken. If a per­son whose data has been trans­mit­ted by Switzer­land to the Eurodac data­base is gran­ted cit­izen­ship of a state bound by one of the Dub­lin As­so­ci­ation Agree­ments be­fore the ex­piry of this peri­od, SEM, as soon as it has been no­ti­fied of this fact, shall re­quest the Cent­ral Unit to erase the data im­me­di­ately.