Federal Act
on Data Protection
(Data Protection Act, FADP)

¹ Private con­trol­lers may ap­point a data pro­tec­tion of­ficer.

² The data pro­tec­tion of­ficer is the con­tact point for the data sub­jects and for the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for data pro­tec­tion in Switzer­land. He or she has the fol­low­ing tasks in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

train­ing and ad­vising the private con­trol­ler in mat­ters of data pro­tec­tion;

b.

provid­ing sup­port on ap­ply­ing the data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions.

³ Private con­trol­lers may in­voke the ex­cep­tion in Art­icle 23 para­graph 4 if the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments are sat­is­fied:

a.

The data pro­tec­tion of­ficer ex­er­cises his or her func­tion to­wards the con­trol­ler in a pro­fes­sion­ally in­de­pend­ent man­ner and is not bound by any in­struc­tions.

b.

He or she does not carry out any activ­it­ies that are in­com­pat­ible with his or her tasks as a data pro­tec­tion of­ficer.

c.

He or she has the re­quired ex­pert­ise.

d.

The con­trol­ler pub­lishes the con­tact de­tails of the data pro­tec­tion of­ficer and no­ti­fies the FD­PIC there­of.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the ap­point­ment of data pro­tec­tion of­ficers by fed­er­al bod­ies.