Swiss Criminal Code

¹ Per­son­al data trans­mit­ted or made avail­able by a Schen­gen State may be dis­closed to the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity of a third coun­try or an in­ter­na­tion­al body, only if:

a.

the dis­clos­ure is ne­ces­sary to pre­vent, de­tect or pro­sec­ute a crim­in­al of­fence;

b.

the Schen­gen State which trans­mit­ted or made avail­able the per­son­al data has giv­en its pri­or con­sent to the dis­clos­ure; and

c.

the re­quire­ments un­der Art­icle 349c are ful­filled.

² By way of derog­a­tion from para­graph 1 let­ter b, per­son­al data may be dis­closed in a par­tic­u­lar case, if:

a.

the pri­or con­sent of the Schen­gen State not can­not be ob­tained in time; and

b.

dis­clos­ure is es­sen­tial to pre­vent an im­min­ent ser­i­ous threat to the pub­lic se­cur­ity of a Schen­gen State or a third coun­try or for safe­guard­ing the es­sen­tial in­terests of a Schen­gen State.

³ The Schen­gen State shall be in­formed im­me­di­ately of the dis­clos­ure re­ferred to in para­graph 2.