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

¹ The FOJ may re­ceive re­quests dir­ectly from the min­istry of justice of the re­quest­ing State.

² When pro­vi­sion­al meas­ures must be taken or in ur­gent cases, the in­ter­ven­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Crim­in­al Po­lice or­gan­isa­tion (ICPO In­ter­pol) may be en­lis­ted or a copy of the writ­ten re­quest may be sent dir­ectly to the au­thor­ity com­pet­ent for its ex­e­cu­tion.