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

¹ The FD­PIC may ex­change in­form­a­tion or per­son­al data with for­eign au­thor­it­ies that are re­spons­ible for data pro­tec­tion in or­der that they may ful­fil their re­spect­ive stat­utory du­ties in re­la­tion to data pro­tec­tion, provided the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments are sat­is­fied:

a.

Re­cipro­city with re­gard to ad­min­is­trat­ive as­sist­ance is guar­an­teed.

b.

The in­form­a­tion and per­son­al data are used only in the pro­ceed­ings re­lated to data pro­tec­tion that are the sub­ject of the re­quest for ad­min­is­trat­ive as­sist­ance.

c.

The re­cip­i­ent au­thor­ity un­der­takes to pre­serve pro­fes­sion­al secrecy as well as trade and man­u­fac­tur­ing secrecy.

d.

The in­form­a­tion and per­son­al data are only dis­closed to third parties if the au­thor­ity that provided them gives its ap­prov­al be­fore­hand.

e.

The re­cip­i­ent au­thor­ity un­der­takes to com­ply with the re­quire­ments and re­stric­tions im­posed by the au­thor­ity that provided the in­form­a­tion and per­son­al data.

² In or­der to jus­ti­fy its re­quest for ad­min­is­trat­ive as­sist­ance or to com­ply with the re­quest from an au­thor­ity, the FD­PIC may provide the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the iden­tity of the con­trol­ler, of the pro­cessor or of oth­er third parties in­volved;

b.

the cat­egor­ies of data sub­jects;

c.

the iden­tity the data sub­jects, provided:

1.

the data sub­jects have con­sen­ted, or

2.

dis­clos­ure of the iden­tity of the data sub­jects is es­sen­tial for the FD­PIC or the for­eign au­thor­ity to ful­fil stat­utory du­ties;

d.

pro­cessed per­son­al data or cat­egor­ies of pro­cessed per­son­al data;

e.

the pur­pose of pro­cessing;

f.

the re­cip­i­ents or the cat­egor­ies of re­cip­i­ents;

g.

tech­nic­al and or­gan­isa­tion­al meas­ures.

³ Be­fore the FD­PIC provides in­form­a­tion that may in­clude pro­fes­sion­al, trade or man­u­fac­tur­ing secrets to a for­eign au­thor­ity, it shall in­form the nat­ur­al per­sons or leg­al en­tit­ies con­cerned that hold these secrets, and in­vite them to com­ment, un­less this is not pos­sible or re­quires dis­pro­por­tion­ate ef­fort.