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

¹ The FIS shall ter­min­ate the in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ure re­quir­ing au­thor­isa­tion im­me­di­ately, if:

a.

the au­thor­ised peri­od has ex­pired;

b.

the re­quire­ments for con­tinu­ing with the meas­ure are no longer ful­filled;

c.

au­thor­isa­tion by the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court or clear­ance from the Head of the DDPS is not gran­ted.

² In cases of ur­gency, the FIS shall en­sure the im­me­di­ate de­struc­tion of the data pro­cured if:

a.

the pres­id­ent of the com­pet­ent di­vi­sion of the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court re­jects the ap­plic­a­tion;

b.

the Head of the DDPS ter­min­ates the in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ure with im­me­di­ate ef­fect or re­fuses clear­ance for con­tinu­ation.

³ If oth­er agen­cies are in­volved in car­ry­ing out the in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ure re­quir­ing au­thor­isa­tion, the FIS shall no­ti­fy them of its ter­min­a­tion.

⁴ The FIS shall no­ti­fy the Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court and the Head of the DDPS of the ter­min­a­tion of the in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ure.