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

¹ In the event of a ser­i­ous and im­me­di­ate threat, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may in­struct the FIS to carry out meas­ures in terms of this Act to the ex­tent that these meas­ures are re­quired to safe­guard oth­er im­port­ant na­tion­al in­terests in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 3.

² It shall in each case de­term­ine the dur­a­tion, pur­pose, nature and ex­tent of the meas­ure.

³ In the case of in­form­a­tion gath­er­ing meas­ures re­quir­ing au­thor­isa­tion, the au­thor­isa­tion pro­ced­ure in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 26–33 must be com­plied with.

⁴ If the Fed­er­al Coun­cil is­sues in­struc­tions in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1, it shall in­form the CDel with­in 24 hours.