Federal Act
on Financial Market Infrastructures and Market Conduct in Securities and Derivatives Trading
(Financial Market Infrastructure Act, FinMIA)

¹ The trade re­pos­it­ory shall grant a for­eign fin­an­cial mar­ket su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity free ac­cess to the data it re­quires to per­form its tasks if an agree­ment re­gard­ing co­oper­a­tion between the com­pet­ent Swiss and for­eign su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies con­firms ful­fil­ment of the fol­low­ing con­di­tions:

a.

The for­eign fin­an­cial mar­ket su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity is sub­ject to a stat­utory con­fid­en­ti­al­ity duty.

b.

For­ward­ing of the data by the for­eign fin­an­cial mar­ket su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity to oth­er for­eign au­thor­it­ies is per­mit­ted only if, on trans­fer to a crim­in­al au­thor­ity, mu­tu­al as­sist­ance in ac­cord­ance with the Mu­tu­al As­sist­ance Act of 20 March 1981⁴⁰ is pos­sible.

c.

The Swiss au­thor­it­ies men­tioned in Art­icle 77 para­graph 1 have im­me­di­ate ac­cess to trade re­pos­it­or­ies in the state of the for­eign fin­an­cial mar­ket su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late ac­cess to data con­cern­ing cent­ral bank trans­ac­tions, tak­ing ac­count of re­cog­nised in­ter­na­tion­al stand­ards.