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

¹ The FD­PIC shall open an in­vest­ig­a­tion in­to a fed­er­al body or a private per­son ex of­fi­cio or in re­sponse to a re­port if there are suf­fi­cient in­dic­a­tions that a data pro­cessing activ­ity could vi­ol­ate data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions.

² It may re­frain from open­ing an in­vest­ig­a­tion if the vi­ol­a­tion of data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions is of minor im­port­ance.

³ The fed­er­al body or the private per­son shall provide the FD­PIC with all the in­form­a­tion and doc­u­ments that is needed for the in­vest­ig­a­tion. The right to re­fuse to provide in­form­a­tion is gov­erned by the Art­icles 16 and 17 of the APA¹⁹, un­less Art­icle 50 para­graph 2 of this Act provides oth­er­wise.

⁴ If the data sub­ject has filed a re­port, the FD­PIC shall in­form them about the steps taken in re­sponse and the res­ult of any in­vest­ig­a­tion.