Asylum Act
(AsylA)

¹ SEM may use video sur­veil­lance equip­ment and sys­tems in­side and out­side build­ings that it man­ages in con­nec­tion with the asylum pro­ced­ure and may make video and au­dio re­cord­ings in or­der to pro­tect prop­erty and per­sons, in par­tic­u­lar asylum seekers, SEM em­ploy­ees and em­ploy­ees re­spons­ible for care and se­cur­ity, from any form of threat.

² The video and au­dio re­cord­ings shall be stored for four months and then auto­mat­ic­ally des­troyed un­less they are re­quired in crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings or for an ad­min­is­trat­ive in­vest­ig­a­tion con­duc­ted by SEM.

³ The re­cord­ings may be passed on to the pro­sec­u­tion au­thor­it­ies.

⁴ SEM se­cur­ity man­agers and their su­per­i­ors may view the re­cord­ings in the course of an ad­min­is­trat­ive or crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tion.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the mod­al­it­ies of video sur­veil­lance. It shall in par­tic­u­lar spe­cify which build­ings or parts of build­ings may be placed un­der video sur­veil­lance, and reg­u­late the stor­age of re­cord­ings, their pro­tec­tion against mis­use and their han­dover to the pro­sec­u­tion au­thor­it­ies.