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

¹ Where mu­tu­al as­sist­ance pro­ceed­ings are pending, the per­son who is the ob­ject of a re­quest for in­ter­na­tion­al co­oper­a­tion in crim­in­al mat­ters shall be al­lowed ac­cess to the per­son­al data re­lated to them and the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

the pur­pose of and leg­al basis for the data pro­cessing;

b.

the peri­od that the per­son­al data will be re­tained or, if this is not pos­sible, the cri­ter­ia for de­term­in­ing this peri­od;

c.

the re­cip­i­ents or the cat­egor­ies of re­cip­i­ents;

d.

the avail­able in­form­a­tion on the ori­gin of the per­son­al data;

e.

the in­form­a­tion that they re­quire to be able to as­sert their rights.

² The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity may re­fuse to provide the in­form­a­tion, lim­it the in­form­a­tion provided or de­fer pro­vi­sion of the in­form­a­tion if there are grounds for do­ing so un­der Art­icle 80b para­graph 2 or if:

a.

it is ne­ces­sary be­cause of over­rid­ing in­terests of third parties;

b.

it is ne­ces­sary be­cause of over­rid­ing pub­lic in­terests, in par­tic­u­lar re­lat­ing to the in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity of Switzer­land; or

c.

an en­quiry, an in­vest­ig­a­tion, court pro­ceed­ings or in­ter­na­tion­al co­oper­a­tion pro­ceed­ings in crim­in­al mat­ters may be pre­ju­diced by provid­ing the per­son con­cerned with in­form­a­tion.