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

¹ The FIS shall take meas­ures to guar­an­tee the pro­tec­tion, safety and se­cur­ity of its em­ploy­ees, fa­cil­it­ies and the data that it pro­cesses. To this end it may:

a.

carry out on its premises bag and per­son­al checks on:

1.

FIS em­ploy­ees,

2.

per­sons work­ing tem­por­ar­ily for the FIS,

3.

em­ploy­ees of com­pan­ies that provide the FIS with ser­vices on its premises;

b.

carry out checks of rooms and spaces in FIS fa­cil­it­ies to veri­fy wheth­er the reg­u­la­tions on pro­tect­ing clas­si­fied in­form­a­tion are be­ing com­plied with;

c.

mon­it­or archive rooms, strong rooms and stor­e­rooms and the ac­cess zones to the FIS premises us­ing video trans­mis­sion and re­cord­ing devices;

d.

op­er­ate tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions jam­mers in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 34 para­graph 1^ter of the Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions Act of 30 April 1997⁵ on premises that it uses.

² The FIS shall op­er­ate a se­cure com­puter net­work for its in­form­a­tion sys­tems that must in par­tic­u­lar be pro­tec­ted against ac­cess by un­au­thor­ised per­sons.