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

¹ The FIS may ar­range for alerts to be is­sued in the com­pu­ter­ised po­lice search sys­tem in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 15 para­graph 1 of the Fed­er­al Act of 13 June 2008⁸ on the Fed­er­al Po­lice In­form­a­tion Sys­tems (FPISA) and in the na­tion­al part of the Schen­gen In­form­a­tion Sys­tem in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 16 para­graph 2 FPISA in re­spect of per­sons and vehicles.

² An alert in re­spect of a per­son or a vehicle is only per­mit­ted if there is reas­on to be­lieve that:

a.

the per­son con­cerned poses a spe­cif­ic threat to in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6 para­graph 1 let­ter a;

b.

the vehicle is be­ing used by a per­son defined in let­ter a;

c.

the vehicle will be used for a dif­fer­ent spe­cif­ic threat to in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6 para­graph 1 let­ter a;

d.

the where­abouts of a per­son or a vehicle must be es­tab­lished in or­der to safe­guard oth­er im­port­ant na­tion­al in­terests in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 3.

³ The alert may not be is­sued in or­der to mon­it­or the vehicle of a third party that be­longs to any of the pro­fes­sions men­tioned in Art­icles 171–173 of the Crim­in­al Pro­ced­ure Code (Crim­PC)⁹.