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

¹ The IN­DEX FIS in­form­a­tion sys­tem is used:

a.

to es­tab­lish wheth­er the FIS is pro­cessing data re­lat­ing to a per­son, an or­gan­isa­tion, a group, an ob­ject or an event;

b.

to store re­ports pre­pared by the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies;

c.

to pro­cess data from pre­lim­in­ary in­vest­ig­a­tions car­ried out by the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies.

² It en­ables au­thor­it­ies that are not con­nec­ted to the spe­cially se­cured FIS net­work to ac­cess data that they need to ful­fil their stat­utory tasks, and the se­cure trans­mis­sion of such data.

³ It con­tains:

a.

data for the iden­ti­fic­a­tion of the per­sons, or­gan­isa­tions, groups, ob­jects and events re­cor­ded in the IASA FIS and IASA-GEX FIS in­form­a­tion sys­tems;

b.

the re­ports pre­pared by the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies in­de­pend­ently or on be­half of the FIS;

c.

data from pre­lim­in­ary in­vest­ig­a­tions car­ried out by the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies.

⁴ The fol­low­ing per­sons have on­line ac­cess to the fol­low­ing data in IN­DEX FIS:

a.

FIS em­ploy­ees have ac­cess to the data in para­graph 3 let­ters a and b, provided they have the task of en­sur­ing the early re­cog­ni­tion and pre­ven­tion of threats to Switzer­land and its pop­u­la­tion;

b.

em­ploy­ees of the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies in or­der to carry out their tasks in terms of this Act and to pro­cess and pass on their data from pre­lim­in­ary in­vest­ig­a­tions and their re­ports to the FIS and to oth­er can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies; only em­ploy­ees of the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity that car­ried out the pre­lim­in­ary in­vest­ig­a­tions and the em­ploy­ees of the FIS qual­ity as­sur­ance ser­vice have ac­cess to data in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 3 let­ter c;

c.

em­ploy­ees of the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Po­lice have ac­cess to the data in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 3 let­ter a in or­der to con­duct se­cur­ity-re­lated, crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tion and ad­min­is­trat­ive-poli­cing tasks and to as­sess al­leg­a­tions of money laun­der­ing and ter­ror­ism fin­an­cing con­tained in re­ports from Swiss fin­an­cial in­sti­tu­tions;

d.²⁵

the em­ploy­ees of the spe­cial­ist units in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 31 para­graph 2 of the In­form­a­tion Se­cur­ity Act of 18 Decem­ber 2020²⁶ re­spons­ible for car­ry­ing out per­son­nel se­cur­ity screen­ing pro­ced­ures have ac­cess to the data in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 3 let­ter a in or­der to carry out per­son­nel se­cur­ity screen­ing pro­ced­ures and as­sess trust­wor­thi­ness and po­ten­tial for vi­ol­ence.