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

¹ The FIS may cov­ertly gath­er in­form­a­tion about events out­side Switzer­land.

² Where the FIS pro­cures in­form­a­tion in Switzer­land about events out­side Switzer­land, it is bound by the pro­vi­sions of Sec­tion 4; Art­icle 37 para­graph 2 re­mains re­served.

³ The FIS shall en­sure that the risk in in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing is not dis­pro­por­tion­ate to the ex­pec­ted be­ne­fit of in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing and that in­ter­fer­ence with the fun­da­ment­al rights of the per­sons con­cerned can be lim­ited to what is ne­ces­sary.

⁴ It shall doc­u­ment in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing about events out­side Switzer­land for the at­ten­tion of the su­per­vi­sion and con­trol bod­ies.

⁵ It may store data sep­ar­ately from in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ures abroad that are com­par­able with in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ures re­quir­ing au­thor­isa­tion if this is re­quired be­cause of the volume of data, con­fid­en­ti­al­ity or se­cur­ity.

⁶ FIS em­ploy­ees de­ployed abroad shall be in­sured dur­ing their mis­sion un­der the Fed­er­al Act of 19 June 1992²⁰ on Mil­it­ary In­sur­ance against Ill­ness and Ac­ci­dent.

⁷ The FIS shall en­sure the pro­tec­tion of its em­ploy­ees de­ployed abroad.