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

¹ The ex­ecut­ing and the ap­pel­late au­thor­ity as well as the FOJ may make the grant­ing of mu­tu­al as­sist­ance wholly or partly sub­ject to cer­tain con­di­tions.

² The FOJ shall com­mu­nic­ate the con­di­tions to the re­quest­ing State when the rul­ing on the grant­ing and the ex­tent of the mu­tu­al as­sist­ance is fi­nal and shall give it an ap­pro­pri­ate dead­line by which to ac­cept or re­fuse. If the dead­line giv­en is not re­spec­ted, mu­tu­al as­sist­ance may be gran­ted on the points that are not sub­ject to con­di­tions.

³ The FOJ shall ex­am­ine if the re­sponse of the re­quest­ing State sat­is­fies the con­di­tions set.

⁴ The rul­ing of the FOJ is sub­ject to an ap­peal to the Ap­peals Cham­ber of the Fed­er­al Crim­in­al Court with­in ten days of its no­tice be­ing giv­en in writ­ing. The de­cision of the Ap­peals Cham­ber is fi­nal.¹⁴²