Swiss Criminal Code

¹ The Fed­er­al Of­fice of Justice, with the sup­port of the oth­er fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies and the can­tons (Art. 367 para. 1), main­tains a com­pu­ter­ised re­gister of crim­in­al con­vic­tions and ap­plic­a­tions for ex­tracts from the re­gister of con­vic­tions in con­nec­tion with on­go­ing crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings, which con­tains sens­it­ive per­son­al data and per­son­al­ity pro­files. The data on con­vic­tions and on ap­plic­a­tions for ex­tracts from the re­gister of con­vic­tions in con­nec­tion with on­go­ing crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings are pro­cessed sep­ar­ately in the com­pu­ter­ised re­gister.

² The re­gister serves to sup­port the fed­er­al and can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies in the ful­fil­ment of the fol­low­ing tasks:

a.

the con­duct of crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings;

b.

in­ter­na­tion­al mu­tu­al as­sist­ance and ex­tra­di­tion pro­ceed­ings;

c.

the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tences and meas­ures;

d.

ci­vil­ian and mil­it­ary se­cur­ity checks;

e.

the im­pos­i­tion and re­voc­a­tion of meas­ures ban­ning entry on for­eign na­tion­als un­der the Fed­er­al Act of 26 March 1931⁴⁸³ on the Res­id­ence and Set­tle­ment of For­eign Na­tion­als as well as the oth­er forms of ex­pul­sion;

f.

the as­sess­ment of eli­gib­il­ity for asylum un­der the Asylum Act of 26 June 1998⁴⁸⁴;

g.

nat­ur­al­isa­tion pro­ced­ures;

h.

the grant and re­voc­a­tion of full and pro­vi­sion­al driv­ing li­cences un­der the Road Traffic Act from 19 Decem­ber 1958⁴⁸⁵;

i.

con­duct of con­su­lar pro­tec­tion meas­ures;

j.

stat­ist­ic­al pro­cessing un­der the Fed­er­al Stat­ist­ics Act of 9 Oc­to­ber 1992⁴⁸⁶;

k.⁴⁸⁷

the im­pos­i­tion or re­voc­a­tion of child or adult pro­tec­tion meas­ures;

l.⁴⁸⁸

ex­clu­sion from the per­form­ance of al­tern­at­ive ci­vil­ian ser­vice or pro­hib­i­tion from per­form­ing peri­ods of ser­vice un­der the Ci­vil­ian Ser­vice Act of 6 Oc­to­ber 1995⁴⁸⁹;

m.⁴⁹⁰

the as­sess­ment of good char­ac­ter for cer­tain forms of work un­der the Ci­vil­ian Ser­vice Act of 6 Oc­to­ber 1995;

n.⁴⁹¹

the as­sess­ment of eli­gib­il­ity for re­cruit­ment, ex­clu­sion from the armed forces, or read­mis­sion to the armed forces or de­mo­tion un­der the Armed Forces Act of 3 Feb­ru­ary 1995⁴⁹² (ArmA);

o.⁴⁹³

the as­sess­ment of suit­ab­il­ity for pro­mo­tion or ap­point­ment un­der the ArmA;

p.⁴⁹⁴

the as­sess­ment of grounds for re­fus­ing to is­sue a per­son­al weapon un­der the ArmA;

q.⁴⁹⁵

the as­sess­ment of ex­clu­sion from ser­vice un­der the Civil Pro­tec­tion and Civil De­fence Act of 4 Oc­to­ber 2002⁴⁹⁶;

r.⁴⁹⁷

the early re­cog­ni­tion and pre­ven­tion of the threats to in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 6 para­graph 1 In­telSA⁴⁹⁸;

s.⁴⁹⁹

co­ordin­at­ing the ex­change of in­form­a­tion with Euro­pol in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 355a,provided the data from Euro­pol is re­quired for pur­poses in ac­cord­ance with let­ter r;

t.⁵⁰⁰

re­view­ing meas­ures ban­ning the entry of for­eign na­tion­als un­der the For­eign Na­tion­als Act of 16 Decem­ber 2005⁵⁰¹ and the pre­par­a­tion of de­cisions on ex­pul­sion un­der Art­icle 121 para­graph 2 of the Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion;

u.⁵⁰²

pro­cur­ing and passing on in­form­a­tion to for­eign se­cur­ity au­thor­it­ies in con­nec­tion with the re­quests made un­der Art­icle 12 para­graph 1 let­ter d In­telSA; where the passing on of data is not in the in­terests of the per­son con­cerned, such data may only be passed on with that per­son’s ex­press con­sent;

v.⁵⁰³

cla­ri­fic­a­tion of the se­cur­ity risk as part of the back­ground checks in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 108b of the Avi­ation Act of 21 Decem­ber 1948⁵⁰⁴ (AviA).