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

¹ The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies are ob­liged to provide the FIS with in­form­a­tion in or­der to carry out its tasks:

a.

courts, pro­sec­u­tion au­thor­it­ies and au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for ex­ecut­ing crim­in­al sen­tences and meas­ures;

b.

the bor­der guard and cus­toms au­thor­it­ies;

c.

au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for mil­it­ary se­cur­ity, the au­thor­it­ies of the Armed Forces In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice and the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the mil­it­ary ser­vice re­gis­tra­tion sys­tem;

d.

fed­er­al and can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for mat­ters re­lat­ing to the entry and res­id­ence of for­eign na­tion­als and for asylum mat­ters;

e.

au­thor­it­ies that are in­volved in se­cur­ity poli­cing tasks;

f.

res­id­ents’ re­gister of­fices;

g.

au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for dip­lo­mat­ic and con­su­lar mat­ters;

h.

au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for au­thor­ising deal­ings with cer­tain goods;

i.

au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the op­er­a­tion of com­puter sys­tems;

j.

au­thor­it­ies that are re­spons­ible for the su­per­vi­sion of the fin­an­cial mar­kets and for ac­cept­ing re­ports of sus­pi­cions of money laun­der­ing in cases of fin­an­cing ter­ror­ism and ABC pro­lif­er­a­tion activ­it­ies in ac­cord­ance with the Anti-Money Laun­der­ing Act of 10 Oc­to­ber 1997¹³.

² The au­thor­it­ies lis­ted in para­graph 1 are re­quired to pre­serve secrecy in re­la­tion to third parties with re­gard to the re­quest and any in­form­a­tion provided. They are per­mit­ted to in­form their su­per­i­ors and su­per­vi­sion bod­ies.

³ The au­thor­it­ies lis­ted in para­graph 1 shall file a re­port without hav­ing to be re­ques­ted to do so if they identi­fy a spe­cif­ic and ser­i­ous threat to in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity.¹⁴

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall spe­cify in an un­pub­lished list which activ­it­ies and in­tel­li­gence must be re­por­ted to the FIS without a re­quest be­ing re­quired. It shall spe­cify the ex­tent of the ob­lig­a­tion to re­port and the pro­ced­ure for provid­ing in­form­a­tion.