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

¹ The can­tons shall gath­er and pro­cess in­form­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6 para­graph 1 let­ter a without hav­ing to be re­ques­ted to do so or based on a spe­cial as­sign­ment is­sued by the FIS. When do­ing so, the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies have the power to make use on their own ini­ti­at­ive of in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ures not re­quir­ing au­thor­isa­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 13–15, 19, 20, 23 and 25.

² The can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies shall sub­mit a re­port to the FIS without hav­ing to be re­ques­ted to do so if they identi­fy a spe­cif­ic threat to in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity.

³ The FIS shall work with the can­tons to im­ple­ment this Act, in par­tic­u­lar by provid­ing tech­nic­al re­sources, through pro­tect­ive and mon­it­or­ing meas­ures and by of­fer­ing joint train­ing courses.

⁴ The can­tons shall with­in the lim­its of their ca­pa­cit­ies sup­port the FIS in im­ple­ment­ing its tasks, in par­tic­u­lar by:

a.

provid­ing the re­quired tech­nic­al re­sources;

b.

or­gan­ising the re­quired pro­tect­ive and ob­ser­va­tion meas­ures;

c.

as­sist­ing with train­ing.

⁵ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall with­in the lim­its of the ap­proved cred­its com­pensate the can­tons for their sup­port in im­ple­ment­ing this Act. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall fix the level of com­pens­a­tion based on the num­ber of per­sons primar­ily em­ployed to carry out fed­er­al tasks.