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

¹ The FIS may work with for­eign in­tel­li­gence ser­vices and se­cur­ity ser­vices in terms of Art­icle 70 para­graph 1 let­ter f in or­der to im­ple­ment this Act, in that it:

a.

re­ceives or passes on use­ful in­form­a­tion;

b.

holds joint tech­nic­al dis­cus­sions and con­fer­ences;

c.

car­ries out joint activ­it­ies to gath­er and eval­u­ate in­form­a­tion and to as­sess the threat situ­ation;

d.

pro­cures and passes on in­form­a­tion to the re­quest­ing state in or­der to as­sess wheth­er a per­son may work on clas­si­fied for­eign pro­jects re­lated to in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity or have ac­cess to clas­si­fied for­eign in­form­a­tion, ma­ter­i­als or fa­cil­it­ies;

e.

par­ti­cip­ates in terms of Art­icle 70 para­graph 3 in in­ter­na­tion­al auto­mated in­form­a­tion sys­tems.

² It may in con­sulta­tion with the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of For­eign Af­fairs (FD­FA) post em­ploy­ees to Swiss rep­res­ent­a­tions abroad in or­der to pro­mote in­ter­na­tion­al con­tacts. These em­ploy­ees shall work dir­ectly with the re­spons­ible au­thor­it­ies of the host state and third coun­tries in or­der to im­ple­ment this Act.

³ The FIS is re­spons­ible for co­oper­a­tion with for­eign in­tel­li­gence ser­vices in or­der to carry out in­tel­li­gence tasks in terms of this Act.

⁴ The can­tons may work with the com­pet­ent for­eign po­lice au­thor­it­ies in or­der to deal with se­cur­ity is­sues in the bor­der zone.