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

¹ Swiss au­thor­it­ies may not ad­dress to an­oth­er State re­quests which they them­selves could not grant un­der this Act.

² The FOJ is com­pet­ent for re­quests for ex­tra­di­tion, trans­fer of pro­ceed­ings or ex­e­cu­tion of crim­in­al judg­ments; it shall take ac­tion at the re­quest of the re­quest­ing Swiss au­thor­ity.⁸⁰

³ Con­di­tions which the re­ques­ted State at­taches to the ex­e­cu­tion of the re­quest must be ob­served by the Swiss au­thor­it­ies.

⁴ The FOJ may de­cline to make a re­quest if the im­port­ance of the of­fence does not jus­ti­fy the pro­ceed­ings.

⁵ The FOJ shall in­form the re­quest­ing Swiss au­thor­ity im­me­di­ately if the re­ques­ted State re­quires a court or­der for a re­ques­ted mu­tu­al as­sist­ance meas­ure.⁸¹