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

¹ The per­sons en­titled may par­ti­cip­ate in the pro­ceed­ings and have ac­cess to the files provided this is ne­ces­sary to safe­guard their in­terests.

² The rights provided for in para­graph 1 may be lim­ited only:

a.

in the in­terest of the for­eign pro­ceed­ings;

b.

for the pro­tec­tion of an im­port­ant leg­al in­terest if the re­quest­ing State so re­quests;

c.

be­cause of the nature or ur­gency of the meas­ures to be taken;

d.

for the pro­tec­tion of im­port­ant private in­terests;

e.

in the in­terest of Swiss pro­ceed­ings.

³ Ac­cess to the files or par­ti­cip­a­tion in the pro­ceed­ings may only be denied in the case of files or pro­ced­ur­al meas­ures for reas­ons of con­fid­en­ti­al­ity.