Swiss Criminal Code

¹Where it is not pos­sible, in par­tic­u­lar in cases of emer­gency, to dis­close per­son­al data to the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity of a third coun­try through the nor­mal chan­nels of po­lice co­oper­a­tion, the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity may ex­cep­tion­ally dis­close them to a re­cip­i­ent es­tab­lished in that coun­try, provided the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments are ful­filled:

a.

The dis­clos­ure is es­sen­tial to ful­fil a stat­utory task of the au­thor­ity dis­clos­ing the data.

b.

No over­rid­ing in­terests of the data sub­ject worthy of pro­tec­tion stand in the way of dis­clos­ure.

²The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity shall in­form the re­cip­i­ent of the per­son­al data at the time of dis­clos­ure that he may use the data only for the pur­poses spe­cified by the au­thor­ity.

³It shall in­form the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity of the third coun­try without delay of any dis­clos­ure of per­son­al data, provided it con­siders this ap­pro­pri­ate.

⁴If the re­spons­ible au­thor­ity is a fed­er­al au­thor­ity, it shall in­form the Com­mis­sion­er without delay of any dis­clos­ure pur­su­ant to para­graph 1.

⁵It shall doc­u­ment each dis­clos­ure of per­son­al data. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the de­tails.