Federal Act
on International Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters
(Mutual Assistance Act, IMAC)

¹ The Fed­er­al Of­fice of Justice shall run a per­son­al data, file and pro­cess man­age­ment sys­tem that may con­tain sens­it­ive per­son­al data ob­tained through forms of co­oper­a­tion gov­erned by this Act. This data may be pro­cessed in or­der to:

a.

identi­fy wheth­er data on a par­tic­u­lar per­son is be­ing pro­cessed;

b.

pro­cess data on pro­cesses;

c.

or­gan­ise work pro­ced­ures ra­tion­ally and ef­fi­ciently;

d.

con­duct a pro­cess check;

e.

com­pile stat­ist­ics.

² In or­der to com­ply with the pro­cessing pur­poses men­tioned in para­graph 1, the sys­tem shall con­tain:

a.

per­son­al de­tails of per­sons on whom data is be­ing pro­cessed;

b.

data ne­ces­sary for the loc­al­isa­tion and prop­er ad­min­is­tra­tion of the dossier;

c.

doc­u­ments on elec­tron­ic­ally stored pro­cesses and entries.

³ The Fed­er­al Of­fice of Po­lice and the State Sec­ret­ari­at for Mi­gra­tion³⁵ and the units of the Fed­er­al In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice re­spons­ible for the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the Fed­er­al Act of 21 March 1997³⁶ on Meas­ures to Safe­guard In­tern­al Se­cur­ity shall have on­line ac­cess to the data defined in para­graph 2 let­ter a.³⁷ If the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Po­lice car­ries out the tasks of the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Justice un­der this Act, it shall also have on­line ac­cess to the data defined in para­graph 2 let­ter b.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall spe­cify the de­tails, and in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

in the case of the re­cord­ing of data in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2 let­ters a and b, data on the ju­di­cial au­thor­it­ies in­volved in the mu­tu­al as­sist­ance pro­ceed­ings and data on the of­fences giv­ing rise to the re­quest for mu­tu­al as­sist­ance;

b.

the peri­od of time that the data is kept and the archiv­ing of the data;

c.

the agen­cies of the Fed­er­al Of­fice that are au­thor­ised to pro­cess the data dir­ectly in the sys­tem and the data that in in­di­vidu­al cases may be dis­closed to oth­er au­thor­it­ies.