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

For fed­er­al bod­ies, reg­u­la­tions in oth­er fed­er­al le­gis­la­tion that re­late to per­son­al data shall con­tin­ue to ap­ply to the data of leg­al en­tit­ies for five years from the date on which this Act come in­to force. In par­tic­u­lar fed­er­al bod­ies may con­tin­ue to dis­close the data of leg­al en­tit­ies in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 57s para­graphs 1 and 2 of the Gov­ern­ment and Ad­min­is­tra­tion Or­gan­isa­tion Act of 21 March 1997²³ for five years from the date on which this Act come in­to force if there is a leg­al basis that au­thor­ises them to dis­close per­son­al data.