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

¹ The per­son who is the ob­ject of a re­quest for in­ter­na­tion­al co­oper­a­tion in crim­in­al mat­ters may re­quest that the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity cor­rect or de­lete the per­son­al data re­lat­ing to them that is be­ing pro­cessed in con­tra­ven­tion of this Act.

² In­stead of de­let­ing the per­son­al data, the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity shall re­strict the pro­cessing if:

a.

the data sub­ject dis­putes the ac­cur­acy of the per­son­al data but it can­not be es­tab­lished wheth­er the data is cor­rect or in­cor­rect;

b.

over­rid­ing in­terests, in par­tic­u­lar those set out in Art­icle 80b para­graph 2, so re­quire; or

c.

de­le­tion may pre­ju­dice pro­ceed­ings on in­ter­na­tion­al co­oper­a­tion in crim­in­al mat­ters or for­eign pro­ceed­ings giv­ing rise to the re­quest for co­oper­a­tion in crim­in­al mat­ters.

³ The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity shall im­me­di­ately no­ti­fy the au­thor­ity that has trans­mit­ted, made avail­able or dis­closed the per­son­al data about the meas­ures taken in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 or 2.

⁴ The rel­ev­ant for­eign au­thor­ity is re­spons­ible for check­ing the ac­cur­acy of per­son­al data that has been ob­tained as evid­ence or per­son­al data re­lat­ing to crim­in­al of­fences giv­ing rise to the re­quest for in­ter­na­tion­al co­oper­a­tion in crim­in­al mat­ters.