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

¹ Em­ploy­ees of the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies that are en­trus­ted by the can­tons with tasks in terms of this Act are gov­erned by can­ton­al pub­lic ser­vice le­gis­la­tion and sub­ject to the can­ton­al su­per­vi­sion of their su­per­i­ors.

² Su­per­vi­sion in the can­tons is the re­spons­ib­il­ity of the su­per­i­or au­thor­it­ies to the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity con­cerned. These au­thor­it­ies may em­ploy a con­trol au­thor­ity in or­der to provide as­sist­ance with su­per­vi­sion; this body must be sep­ar­ate from the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­ity and ac­count­able to the su­per­i­or au­thor­it­ies.

³ In or­der to ex­er­cise its su­per­vis­ory activ­it­ies, the can­ton­al su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity shall be provided with a list of as­sign­ments is­sued by the FIS and the watch list in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 72.

⁴ The can­ton­al su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity may in­spect the data that the can­ton is pro­cessing on be­half of the Con­fed­er­a­tion. In­spec­tion may be re­fused if es­sen­tial se­cur­ity in­terests so re­quire.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the in­spec­tion pro­ced­ure. In the case of dis­putes, an ac­tion may be brought in the Fed­er­al Su­preme Court in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 120 para­graph 1 let­ter b of the Fed­er­al Su­preme Court Act of 17 June 2005⁵⁵.

⁶ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the sup­port giv­en to the can­ton­al su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity by fed­er­al agen­cies.