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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall ex­er­cise polit­ic­al gov­ernance over the FIS and carry out the fol­low­ing tasks in par­tic­u­lar for that pur­pose:

a.

It shall is­sue the FIS with a ba­sic mis­sion and re­new this mis­sion at least every four years; the ba­sic mis­sion shall re­main secret.

b.

It shall au­thor­ise the watch list in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 72 every year and sub­mit it to the CDel; the watch list is con­fid­en­tial.

c.

It shall de­term­ine the groups every year that must be cat­egor­ised as vi­ol­ent-ex­trem­ist groups and shall take note of the num­ber of vi­ol­ent ex­trem­ists that can­not be as­signed to any known group.

d.

It shall as­sess the threat situ­ation every year and as re­quired in the event of in­cid­ents and shall in­form the Fed­er­al As­sembly and the gen­er­al pub­lic.

e.

It shall or­der the re­quired meas­ures in the case of spe­cial threat situ­ations.

f.

It shall de­cide every year on how the FIS will co­oper­ate with for­eign au­thor­it­ies.

² The doc­u­ments in con­nec­tion with the tasks in para­graph 1 shall not be made ac­cess­ible to the pub­lic.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may on its own ini­ti­at­ive con­clude in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments on the in­ter­na­tion­al co­oper­a­tion of the FIS in re­la­tion to the pro­tec­tion of in­form­a­tion or par­ti­cip­a­tion in in­ter­na­tion­al auto­mated in­form­a­tion sys­tems in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 12 para­graph 1 let­ter e.