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

¹ The ser­vice car­ry­ing out com­mu­nic­a­tions in­tel­li­gence re­ceives the sig­nals from the op­er­at­ors and pro­viders in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 41 para­graph 1 let­ter d, con­verts them in­to data and as­sesses on the basis of the con­tent which data is passed on to the FIS.

² It shall only pass on data to the FIS that con­tains in­form­a­tion with­in the search para­met­ers defined for ful­fil­ment of the man­date. It shall only pass on in­form­a­tion about per­sons in Switzer­land to the FIS if the in­form­a­tion is re­quired to un­der­stand an event abroad and has been an­onymised be­fore­hand.

³ If the data con­tains in­form­a­tion about events in Switzer­land or abroad that provides evid­ence of a spe­cif­ic threat to in­tern­al se­cur­ity in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6 para­graph 1 let­ter a, the ser­vice car­ry­ing out com­mu­nic­a­tions in­tel­li­gence shall pass on the data un­changed to the FIS.

⁴ The ser­vice car­ry­ing out com­mu­nic­a­tions in­tel­li­gence must des­troy data that does not con­tain any in­form­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with para­graphs 2 and 3 as quickly as pos­sible.

⁵ The FIS is re­spons­ible for the in­tel­li­gence eval­u­ation of the data.