Federal Act
on the Intelligence Service
(Intelligence Service Act, IntelSA)

¹ The FIS may or­der an in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ure re­quir­ing au­thor­isa­tion if:

a.

there is a spe­cif­ic threat in terms of Art­icle 19 para­graph 2 let­ters a–d or the meas­ure is re­quired to safe­guard oth­er im­port­ant na­tion­al in­terests in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 3;

b.

the ser­i­ous­ness of the threat jus­ti­fies the meas­ure; and

c.

in­tel­li­gence in­vest­ig­a­tions so far have been un­suc­cess­ful or would oth­er­wise be without pro­spect of suc­cess or un­reas­on­ably dif­fi­cult.

² The FIS shall ob­tain the au­thor­isa­tion of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court and clear­ance from the Head of the DDPS be­fore car­ry­ing out the meas­ure.

³ If oth­er fed­er­al and can­ton­al agen­cies are re­quired to par­ti­cip­ate in car­ry­ing out the meas­ure, the FIS shall is­sue them with a writ­ten or­der as soon as the au­thor­isa­tion of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court and clear­ance from the Head of the DDPS is gran­ted. The in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ure must be kept secret.