Federal Act on Data Protection

¹The con­trol­lers of data files must re­gister ex­ist­ing data files that must be re­gistered un­der Art­icle 11 with­in one year of the com­mence­ment of this Act at the latest.

²They must take the re­quired meas­ures with­in one year of the com­mence­ment of this Act to be able to provide the in­form­a­tion re­quired un­der Art­icle 8.

³Fed­er­al bod­ies may con­tin­ue to use an ex­ist­ing data file with sens­it­ive per­son­al data or with per­son­al­ity pro­files un­til 31 Decem­ber 2000 without ful­filling the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 17 para­graph 2.¹

⁴In mat­ters re­lat­ing to asylum and for­eign na­tion­als, the peri­od men­tioned in para­graph 3 is ex­ten­ded un­til the com­mence­ment of the totally re­vised Asylum Act of 26 June 1998² and the amend­ments to the Fed­er­al Act of 26 March 1931³ on the Res­id­ence and Per­man­ent Set­tle­ment of For­eign Na­tion­als.⁴