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

¹ Any per­son may re­quest in­form­a­tion on wheth­er Switzer­land has re­ceived a re­quest from a for­eign state to make an ar­rest for the pur­pose of ex­tra­di­tion. This right may be as­ser­ted at the Fed­er­al Of­fice. If the re­quest is made to a dif­fer­ent au­thor­ity, that au­thor­ity shall for­ward the re­quest im­me­di­ately to the Fed­er­al Of­fice.

² If a per­son re­quests in­form­a­tion on wheth­er the Fed­er­al Of­fice has re­ceived a re­quest to make an ar­rest for the pur­pose of ex­tra­di­tion, the Fed­er­al Of­fice shall no­ti­fy the per­son that no data about them has been un­law­fully pro­cessed and that the per­son can re­quest the Fed­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion and In­form­a­tion Com­mis­sion­er (the Com­mis­sion­er) to en­quire as to wheth­er any data on them has been law­fully pro­cessed.

³ The Com­mis­sion­er shall con­duct the en­quir­ies; he shall no­ti­fy the per­son con­cerned either that no data about them has been un­law­fully pro­cessed or that he has opened an in­vest­ig­a­tion un­der Art­icle 22 of the Schen­gen Data Pro­tec­tion Act of 28 Septem­ber 2018³⁹ in the case of er­rors in the pro­cessing of per­son­al data.

⁴ If the Com­mis­sion­er iden­ti­fies er­rors in the data pro­cessing, he shall or­der the Fed­er­al Of­fice to rec­ti­fy the same.

⁵ The no­ti­fic­a­tions un­der para­graphs 2 and 3 shall al­ways be worded in the same way and shall not men­tion the grounds.

⁶ The no­ti­fic­a­tion un­der para­graph 3 may not be con­tested.

⁷ In derog­a­tion from para­graph 2, the Fed­er­al Of­fice is en­titled to provide the per­son con­cerned with the re­ques­ted in­form­a­tion if the re­quest­ing state gives its ad­vance con­sent.