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

¹ If the FIS in­tends to is­sue a man­date for cable com­mu­nic­a­tions in­tel­li­gence, it shall file an ap­plic­a­tion with Fed­er­al Ad­min­is­trat­ive Court that in­cludes:

a.

a de­scrip­tion of the man­date to be is­sued to the ser­vice car­ry­ing out the com­mu­nic­a­tions in­tel­li­gence;

b.

the reas­ons why the op­er­a­tion is ne­ces­sary;

c.

de­tails of the cat­egor­ies of search para­met­ers;

d.

de­tails of the op­er­at­ors of cable-based net­works and the pro­viders of tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vices that must sup­ply the sig­nals re­quired to con­duct the cable com­mu­nic­a­tions in­tel­li­gence; and

e.

de­tails of when the op­er­a­tion will start and fin­ish.

² The fur­ther pro­ced­ure is gov­erned by Art­icles 29–32.

³ Au­thor­isa­tion ap­plies for a max­im­um of six months. This peri­od may be ex­ten­ded for a max­im­um of three months in any giv­en case in ac­cord­ance with the same pro­ced­ure.