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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall es­tab­lish an in­de­pend­ent au­thor­ity to over­see the FIS.

² In re­sponse to a pro­pos­al from the DDPS, it shall ap­point the dir­ect­or of the in­de­pend­ent su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity for a term of six years.

³ The dir­ect­or shall be re-ap­poin­ted for a fur­ther term un­less the Fed­er­al Coun­cil rules at the latest six months be­fore the end of the cur­rent term that this is not ap­pro­pri­ate on ob­ject­ively reas­on­able grounds.

⁴ The dir­ect­or may resign from the post as of the end of any month sub­ject to giv­ing six months’ no­tice there­of to the Fed­er­al Coun­cil.

⁵ He or she may be re­moved from the post by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil be­fore the ex­piry of the term of­fice if he or she:

a.

breaches his or her of­fi­cial du­ties wil­fully or through gross neg­li­gence; or

b.

be­comes per­man­ently in­cap­able of ex­er­cising of­fice.