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

¹ The act of ap­point­ment must in­clude the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

the pur­pose of the JIT;

b.

the names of the Swiss and the for­eign crim­in­al or mu­tu­al as­sist­ance au­thor­it­ies;

c.

the names of the per­sons re­spons­ible for each state par­ti­cip­at­ing in the JIT and the names of the oth­er mem­bers of the JIT and their func­tions;

d.

the crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tion, in­clud­ing the fac­tu­al cir­cum­stances, that is the sub­ject mat­ter of the crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tion, and the of­fences un­der in­vest­ig­a­tion;

e.

the states on whose ter­rit­ory the JIT will con­duct in­vest­ig­a­tions in ac­cord­ance with the rel­ev­ant na­tion­al law;

f.

the dur­a­tion for which the JIT is ap­poin­ted, with the date on which this peri­od ends;

g.

the names of any ex­perts and aux­il­i­ary per­son­nel who are not mem­bers of the JIT, in par­tic­u­lar of those who come from oth­er ser­vices or ad­min­is­trat­ive units in the par­ti­cip­at­ing states, as well as the names of any ex­perts and aux­il­i­ary per­son­nel from Euro­just and Euro­pol;

h.

the pro­ced­ure for deal­ings with the me­dia;

i.

the ar­range­ments for bear­ing the costs of the crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tion and in­vest­ig­at­ive activ­it­ies;

j.

the ar­range­ments for bear­ing the costs of time spent in the oth­er coun­try, travel and ac­com­mod­a­tion for the per­sons re­spons­ible, the oth­er mem­bers of the JIT and the ex­perts and aux­il­i­ary per­son­nel;

k.

the tech­nic­al re­sources re­quired to con­duct the op­er­a­tions.

² The act of ap­point­ment may be amended if the in­vest­ig­a­tions so re­quire. In par­tic­u­lar, fur­ther mem­bers may be ad­ded to the JIT or the time lim­it may be ex­ten­ded.