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

¹ Be­fore a form­al en­act­ment comes in­to force, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may au­thor­ise the auto­mated pro­cessing of sens­it­ive per­son­al data or oth­er data pro­cessing un­der Art­icle 34 para­graph 2 let­ters b and c if:

a.

the tasks for which the pro­cessing is re­quired are reg­u­lated in a form­al law that is already in force;

b.

ad­equate meas­ures have been taken to lim­it any vi­ol­a­tion of the data sub­jects' fun­da­ment­al rights to a min­im­um; and

c.

a test phase be­fore the en­act­ment comes in­to force is es­sen­tial for the prac­tic­al im­ple­ment­a­tion of the data pro­cessing, in par­tic­u­lar for tech­nic­al reas­ons.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall ob­tain the FD­PIC's opin­ion be­fore­hand.

³ The com­pet­ent fed­er­al body shall sub­mit an eval­u­ation re­port to the Fed­er­al Coun­cil no later than two years after the start of the pi­lot tri­al. In the re­port, it shall pro­pose the con­tinu­ation or dis­con­tinu­ation of the pro­cessing.

⁴ Auto­mated data pro­cessing must in every case be dis­con­tin­ued if no form­al en­act­ment con­tain­ing the re­quired leg­al basis has come in­to force with­in five years of the start of the pi­lot tri­al.