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

¹ The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Justice and Po­lice (the De­part­ment) shall de­cide on cases un­der Art­icle 1 let­ter a.⁵³ The de­cision of the De­part­ment may be re­ques­ted with­in 30 days of re­ceiv­ing writ­ten no­ti­fic­a­tion of the fi­nal rul­ing.⁵⁴

² The FOJ shall re­ceive the re­quests from abroad and file Swiss re­quests. It shall handle ex­tra­di­tion re­quests and ar­range for re­quests for oth­er as­sist­ance, trans­fer of pro­ceed­ings and ex­e­cu­tion of crim­in­al judg­ments to be ex­amined by the ap­pro­pri­ate can­ton­al or fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies if their ex­e­cu­tion is not ob­vi­ously in­ad­miss­ible.

³ It shall de­cide:

a.

wheth­er to re­quire a guar­an­tee of re­cipro­city (Art. 8 para. 1);

b.

on the ap­pro­pri­ate pro­ced­ure (Art. 19);

c.

on the ad­miss­ib­il­ity of Swiss re­quests (Art. 30, para. 1).

⁴ It may trans­fer the con­duct of pro­ceed­ings wholly or partly to the fed­er­al au­thor­ity which would be com­pet­ent to pro­sec­ute the of­fence if it had been com­mit­ted in Switzer­land.

⁵ It may also de­cide on the ad­miss­ib­il­ity of as­sist­ance and al­low its ex­e­cu­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 79 let­ter a.⁵⁵