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

¹ The FIS may carry out the in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ures it­self, work with do­mest­ic or for­eign agen­cies, or del­eg­ate in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing to such agen­cies provided the oth­er agen­cies guar­an­tee that in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing will be car­ried out in ac­cord­ance with this Act.

² By way of ex­cep­tion, it may also work with private in­di­vidu­als or is­sue private in­di­vidu­als with as­sign­ments if this is re­quired for tech­nic­al reas­ons or to gain ac­cess to the ob­ject of in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing and the per­son con­cerned of­fers a guar­an­tee that in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing will be car­ried out in ac­cord­ance with this Act.