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

¹ The FIS may op­er­ate an in­form­a­tion sys­tem (Quat­tro P) that is used to identi­fy cer­tain cat­egor­ies of for­eign na­tion­als that enter or leave Switzer­land and to mon­it­or their entry and exit data.

² It con­tains data ob­tained at bor­der posts in the course of bor­der and cus­toms checks which may be used to identi­fy the per­sons and track their travel move­ments.

³ FIS em­ploy­ees that are re­quired to identi­fy per­sons in or­der to ful­fil tasks in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6 have on­line ac­cess to Quat­tro P.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine in a non-pub­lic list the cat­egor­ies of per­sons to be re­cor­ded in Quat­tro P; in do­ing so it shall take ac­count of the threat situ­ation at the time.