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

¹ The FIS shall of­fer data and files that are no longer re­quired or that are ear­marked for de­struc­tion to the Fed­er­al Archives. The Fed­er­al Archives shall archive data and files from the FIS in spe­cially se­cured rooms. They are sub­ject to a 50‑year re­ten­tion peri­od.

² For archive ma­ter­i­als that ori­gin­ate from for­eign se­cur­ity ser­vices, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may ex­tend the re­ten­tion peri­od on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions for a lim­ited peri­od in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 12 of the Archiv­ing Act of 26 June 1998⁴³ if the for­eign se­cur­ity ser­vice con­cerned ex­presses re­ser­va­tions against any in­spec­tion.

³ The FIS may in spe­cif­ic cases in­spect per­son­al data dur­ing the re­ten­tion peri­od that it has passed to the Fed­er­al Archives for archiv­ing in or­der to as­sess spe­cif­ic threats to in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity or to safe­guard any oth­er over­rid­ing pub­lic in­terest.

⁴ It shall des­troy data and files that the Fed­er­al Archives has des­ig­nated as not worth archiv­ing.