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

¹ The right to in­form­a­tion re­lat­ing to the ESD, OS­INT portal and Quat­tro P in­form­a­tion sys­tems, the ad­min­is­trat­ive data in GEVER FIS and data in the stor­age sys­tems in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 36 para­graph 5 and 58 is gov­erned by the FADP³⁴.

² If a per­son re­quests in­form­a­tion on wheth­er the FIS is pro­cessing data on them in the IASA FIS, IASA-GEX FIS, IN­DEX FIS or ISCO in­form­a­tion sys­tems, the re­sid­ual data memory or in the GEVER FIS in­tel­li­gence data, the FIS shall de­fer its re­sponse:

a.

if and to the ex­tent that there are over­rid­ing in­terests that are jus­ti­fied in the files in pre­serving secrecy in re­la­tion to the data about the per­son that is be­ing pro­cessed that are con­nec­ted with:

1.

the ful­fil­ment of a task in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6, or

2.

a pro­sec­u­tion or oth­er in­vest­ig­a­tion;

b.

if and to the ex­tent that it is re­quired be­cause of over­rid­ing in­terests of third parties; or

c.

if no data about the ap­plic­ant is be­ing pro­cessed.

³ The FIS shall no­ti­fy the ap­plic­ant that it is de­fer­ring the pro­vi­sion of in­form­a­tion and ad­vise the ap­plic­ant that they have the right to re­quest the Fed­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion and In­form­a­tion Com­mis­sion­er (FD­PIC) that he ex­am­ine wheth­er the data, if any, is be­ing law­fully pro­cessed and wheth­er over­rid­ing in­terests in pre­serving secrecy jus­ti­fy the de­fer­ral.

⁴ As soon as there are no longer any in­terests in pre­serving secrecy, but at the latest on ex­piry of the re­ten­tion peri­od, the FIS shall provide the ap­plic­ant with in­form­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with the FADP un­less there is ex­cess­ive work and ex­pense in­volved.

⁵ The FIS shall no­ti­fy per­sons in re­spect of whom no data is be­ing pro­cessed of this fact no later than three years after re­ceipt of their re­quest.