Federal Act on Data Protection

¹In or­der to im­prove data pro­tec­tion and data se­cur­ity, the man­u­fac­tur­ers of data pro­cessing sys­tems or pro­grams as well as private per­sons or fed­er­al bod­ies that pro­cess per­son­al data may sub­mit their sys­tems, pro­ced­ures and or­gan­isa­tion for eval­u­ation by re­cog­nised in­de­pend­ent cer­ti­fic­a­tion or­gan­isa­tions.

²The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall is­sue reg­u­la­tions on the re­cog­ni­tion of cer­ti­fic­a­tion pro­ced­ures and the in­tro­duc­tion of a data pro­tec­tion qual­ity la­bel. In do­ing so, it shall take ac­count of in­ter­na­tion­al law and the in­ter­na­tion­ally re­cog­nised tech­nic­al stand­ards.