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

¹ The can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies shall not main­tain any data­bases of their own in ap­plic­a­tion of this Act.²⁴

² If the can­tons pro­cess data on their own ini­ti­at­ive, they shall en­sure that the can­ton­al data makes no ref­er­ence to the ex­ist­ence or con­tent of fed­er­al data.

³ The can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies may pass on situ­ation as­sess­ments and data that they re­ceive from the FIS if this is ne­ces­sary in or­der to as­sess meas­ures to safe­guard se­cur­ity or to avert a sig­ni­fic­ant danger. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the agen­cies and the ex­tent to which as­sess­ments and data may be passed on.