Federal Act
on Freedom of Information in the Administration
(Freedom of Information Act, FoIA)

¹An of­fi­cial doc­u­ment is any in­form­a­tion:

a.

which has been re­cor­ded, re­gard­less of the me­di­um;

b.

re­tained by the au­thor­ity which is­sued the same or to which it has been com­mu­nic­ated; and

c.

which con­cerns the ful­fil­ment of a pub­lic task.

² Doc­u­ments which have been pro­duced by means of a simple com­pu­ter­ised pro­cess from re­cor­ded in­form­a­tion which meets the re­quire­ments of para­graph 1 let­ters a, b and c above are also deemed to be of­fi­cial doc­u­ments.

³ Not deemed to be of­fi­cial doc­u­ments are any doc­u­ments which:

a.

are used by an au­thor­ity in a com­mer­cial ca­pa­city;

b.

are not com­plete; or

c.

are in­ten­ded for per­son­al use.