Government and Administration Organisation Act
(GAOA)

¹ Un­der the Fed­er­al Act of 19 June 1992⁶⁹ on Data Pro­tec­tion, any fed­er­al au­thor­ity may run an in­form­a­tion and doc­u­ment­a­tion sys­tem to re­gister, ad­min­is­ter, in­dex and mon­it­or its cor­res­pond­ence and busi­ness. This sys­tem may con­tain data and per­son­al­ity pro­files par­tic­u­larly worthy of pro­tec­tion, de­pend­ing on the cor­res­pond­ence and type of busi­ness. The fed­er­al au­thor­ity con­cerned may only save per­son­al data if they serve to:

a.

pro­cess items of busi­ness;

b.

or­gan­ise op­er­a­tion­al pro­cesses;

c.

de­term­ine wheth­er it is pro­cessing the data of a par­tic­u­lar per­son;

d.

fa­cil­it­ate ac­cess to doc­u­ment­a­tion.

² Only the em­ploy­ees of the fed­er­al body con­cerned have ac­cess to the per­son­al data, and only in as far as they need it in or­der to carry out their tasks.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil is­sues im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions on the or­gan­isa­tion and op­er­a­tion of this in­form­a­tion and doc­u­ment­a­tion sys­tem and on the pro­tec­tion of the per­son­al data re­cor­ded in it.