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

¹ Per­son­al data may not be dis­closed to the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity of a State that is not linked with Switzer­land through one of the Schen­gen as­so­ci­ation agree­ments (a third coun­try) or to an in­ter­na­tion­al body if, as a res­ult, the pri­vacy of the data sub­ject would be ser­i­ously jeop­ard­ised, in par­tic­u­lar be­cause of the lack of ad­equate pro­tec­tion.

² Ad­equate pro­tec­tion is guar­an­teed by:

a.

the le­gis­la­tion of the third coun­try, provided the European Uni­on has con­firmed this in a de­cision;

b.

an in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ment;

c.

spe­cif­ic guar­an­tees.

³ In derog­a­tion from para­graph 1, per­son­al data may be dis­closed to the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity of a third coun­try or to an in­ter­na­tion­al body if dis­clos­ure is ne­ces­sary in the case in ques­tion:

a.

to pro­tect the life or phys­ic­al in­teg­rity of the data sub­ject or a third party;

b.

to pre­vent an im­min­ent and ser­i­ous threat to the pub­lic se­cur­ity of a Schen­gen State or of a third coun­try;

c.

to pre­vent, de­tect or pro­sec­ute a crim­in­al of­fence or to ex­ecute a crim­in­al judg­ment, un­less over­rid­ing le­git­im­ate in­terests of the data sub­ject pre­clude dis­clos­ure;

d.

to ex­er­cise or en­force leg­al rights against an au­thor­ity com­pet­ent to pre­vent, de­tect or pro­sec­ute a crim­in­al of­fence or to ex­ecute a crim­in­al judg­ment, un­less over­rid­ing le­git­im­ate in­terests of the data sub­ject pre­clude dis­clos­ure.