Federal Act
on War Materiel
(War Materiel Act, WMA)

¹ The con­trol au­thor­it­ies have the right to enter and in­spect the busi­ness premises of per­sons ob­liged to provide in­form­a­tion dur­ing nor­mal work­ing hours without pri­or no­tice and to ex­am­ine the rel­ev­ant doc­u­ments. They shall con­fis­cate in­crim­in­at­ing ma­ter­i­el. In the event of sus­pi­cion of an of­fence, more rig­or­ous pro­vi­sions of pro­ced­ur­al law are re­served.

² If ne­ces­sary, they may in the course of their con­trols call in can­ton­al and com­mun­al po­lice of­ficers, the in­vest­ig­at­ing au­thor­it­ies of the Cus­toms Ad­min­is­tra­tion, and the Fed­er­al In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice.³²

³ They may pro­cess per­son­al data in ac­cord­ance with the ob­ject­ives of this Act. Par­tic­u­larly sens­it­ive per­son­al data may be pro­cessed only where it relates to ad­min­is­trat­ive or crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings and sanc­tions. Ad­di­tion­al par­tic­u­larly sens­it­ive per­son­al data may be pro­cessed only if this is in­dis­pens­able for hand­ling the in­di­vidu­al case.

⁴ They are ob­liged to pre­serve pro­fes­sion­al secrecy and to take all the pre­cau­tion­ary meas­ures re­quired in their field to pre­vent in­dus­tri­al es­pi­on­age.