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

¹ The DDPS shall in­form the Fed­er­al Coun­cil reg­u­larly about the threat situ­ation and the activ­it­ies of the FIS.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late:

a.

fin­an­cial su­per­vi­sion over the spheres of activ­ity of the FIS that re­quire par­tic­u­lar con­fid­en­ti­al­ity;

b.

the min­im­um re­quire­ments for con­trol in the can­tons and the re­spons­ib­il­it­ies of fed­er­al su­per­vi­sion bod­ies.

³ In­ter­na­tion­al ad­min­is­trat­ive agree­ments con­cluded by the FIS that are of long-term dur­a­tion, have sub­stan­tial fin­an­cial con­sequences or of which the Fed­er­al Coun­cil should be no­ti­fied for leg­al or polit­ic­al reas­ons re­quire ap­prov­al by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil. This re­quire­ment of ap­prov­al also ap­plies to un­writ­ten agree­ments. The agree­ments may only be im­ple­men­ted once ap­prov­al is giv­en.

⁴ The DDPS shall in­form the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and the CDel an­nu­ally or as re­quired about the pur­pose and num­ber of ali­as iden­tit­ies be­ing used by em­ploy­ees of the FIS or can­ton­al se­cur­ity agen­cies. The num­ber of newly is­sued iden­tity doc­u­ments must be shown sep­ar­ately.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall in­form the CDel an­nu­ally and as re­quired about bans on activ­it­ies and the res­ults of the reg­u­lar re­view in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 73 para­graph 3 and about bans of or­gan­isa­tions.