Federal Act on Data Protection

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Art. 26a Reappointment and termination of the term of office

1The Com­mis­sion­er's term of of­fice may be ex­ten­ded twice.2

1bisThis term of of­fice shall be ex­ten­ded auto­mat­ic­ally un­less the Fed­er­al Coun­cil has is­sued an or­der based on ma­ter­i­ally ad­equate grounds that the term of of­fice should not be ex­ten­ded.3

2The Com­mis­sion­er may re­quest the Fed­er­al Coun­cil to be dis­charged from of­fice at the end of any month sub­ject to six months ad­vance no­tice.

3The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may dis­miss the Com­mis­sion­er from of­fice be­fore the ex­piry of his term of of­fice if he:

a.
wil­fully or through gross neg­li­gence ser­i­ously vi­ol­ates his du­ties of of­fice; or
b.
he is per­man­ently un­able to ful­fil his du­ties of of­fice.

1 In­ser­ted by No 3 of the FA of 19 March 2010 on the Im­ple­ment­a­tion of Frame­work De­cision 2008/977/JHA on the pro­tec­tion of per­son­al data pro­cessed in the frame­work of po­lice and ju­di­cial co­oper­a­tion in crim­in­al mat­ters, in force since 1 Dec. 2010 (AS 2010 3387 3418; BBl 2009 6749).
2 Amended by No II 1 of the FA of 28 Sept. 2018 on the Im­ple­ment­a­tion of Dir­ect­ive (EU) 2016/680 on the pro­tec­tion of nat­ur­al per­sons with re­gard to the pro­cessing of per­son­al data by com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies for the pur­poses of the pre­ven­tion, in­vest­ig­a­tion, de­tec­tion or pro­sec­u­tion of crim­in­al of­fences or the ex­e­cu­tion of crim­in­al pen­al­ties, in force since 1 March 2019 (AS 2019 625; BBl 2017 6941).
3 In­ser­ted by No II 1 of the FA of 28 Sept. 2018 on the Im­ple­ment­a­tion of Dir­ect­ive (EU) 2016/680 on the pro­tec­tion of nat­ur­al per­sons with re­gard to the pro­cessing of per­son­al data by com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies for the pur­poses of the pre­ven­tion, in­vest­ig­a­tion, de­tec­tion or pro­sec­u­tion of crim­in­al of­fences or the ex­e­cu­tion of crim­in­al pen­al­ties, in force since 1 March 2019 (AS 2019 625; BBl 2017 6941).

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