Federal Act
on the Surveillance of Post and Telecommunications
(SPTA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the cal­cu­la­tion and dis­burse­ment of com­pens­a­tion and the cal­cu­la­tion and col­lec­tion of con­tri­bu­tions to costs.

² It may provide that the com­pens­a­tion and con­tri­bu­tions to costs are cal­cu­lated on an in­di­vidu­al basis or at a flat rate.

³ It shall spe­cify the tar­iffs for cal­cu­la­tions made on an in­di­vidu­al basis.

⁴ For cal­cu­la­tions made on a flat-rate basis, it shall take ac­count of the ex­tent to which the costs may be at­trib­uted to the Con­fed­er­a­tion or to in­di­vidu­al can­tons ac­cord­ing to the be­ne­fit of the in­form­a­tion and the sur­veil­lance. If the can­tons have agreed on the shares of the over­all costs that they are each to bear, the al­loc­a­tion of costs shall be based on this agree­ment.

⁵ In the case of flat-rate com­pens­a­tion and con­tri­bu­tions to costs, the Ser­vice shall provide state­ments on its ser­vices and those of the en­tit­ies ob­liged to co­oper­ate show­ing the amounts that would be in­curred in the case of an in­di­vidu­al as­sess­ment.