Federal Act
on Medicinal Products and Medical Devices
(Therapeutic Products Act, TPA)

¹ The Agency shall pro­cess, on pa­per and in one or more in­form­a­tion sys­tems, em­ploy­ee data for the ful­fil­ment of its tasks in ac­cord­ance with this Act, in par­tic­u­lar for:

a.

de­term­in­ing per­son­nel re­quire­ments;

b.

meet­ing per­son­nel re­quire­ments through staff re­cruit­ment;

c.

wage and salary ac­count­ing, pre­par­a­tion of per­son­nel re­cords, so­cial in­sur­ance no­ti­fic­a­tions;

d.

de­vel­op­ment and long-term re­ten­tion of staff;

e.

main­ten­ance and im­prove­ment of staff qual­i­fic­a­tions;

f.

plan­ning, man­age­ment and con­trol through data ana­lys­is, bench­mark­ing, re­port­ing and plan­ning of meas­ures.

² It may pro­cess the fol­low­ing per­son­nel data ne­ces­sary for the ful­fil­ment of its tasks as spe­cified in para­graph 1, in­clud­ing sens­it­ive per­son­al data:

a.

per­son­al de­tails;

b.

in­form­a­tion on the health situ­ation in re­la­tion to fit­ness for work;

c.

in­form­a­tion on per­form­ance and po­ten­tial, and on per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al de­vel­op­ment;

d.

data re­quired for par­ti­cip­a­tion in the en­force­ment of so­cial in­sur­ance law;

e.

pro­ced­ur­al doc­u­ments and de­cisions by au­thor­it­ies re­lat­ing to work.

³ It shall be re­spons­ible for data pro­tec­tion and se­cur­ity.

⁴ It may pass on data to third parties if a leg­al basis for this ex­ists, or if writ­ten con­sent has been giv­en by the data sub­ject.

⁵ It shall is­sue im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions on:

a.

the ar­chi­tec­ture, or­gan­isa­tion and op­er­a­tion of the in­form­a­tion sys­tems;

b.

the pro­cessing of data, in par­tic­u­lar the col­lec­tion, stor­age, archiv­ing and de­struc­tion there­of;

c.

data pro­cessing per­mis­sions;

d.

data cat­egor­ies in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2;

e.

data pro­tec­tion and se­cur­ity.

⁶ It may provide for the dis­clos­ure of non-sens­it­ive data through re­triev­al pro­ced­ures. It shall is­sue im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions for this pur­pose.