Swiss Criminal Code

¹ The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies pro­cess per­son­al data on con­vic­tions in the re­gister in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 366 para­graphs 1–3:⁵⁰⁹

a.

the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Justice;

b.

the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the ad­min­is­tra­tion of ci­vil­ian crim­in­al justice;

c.

the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the ad­min­is­tra­tion of mil­it­ary crim­in­al justice;

d.

the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tences and meas­ures;

e.

the can­ton­al co­ordin­a­tion of­fices.

² The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may have on­line ac­cess to the per­son­al data on con­vic­tions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 366 para­graphs 1, 2 and 3 let­ters a and b:⁵¹⁰:

a.

the au­thor­it­ies lis­ted in para­graph 1;

b.

the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of Switzer­land;

c.

the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Po­lice in the course of crim­in­al in­vest­ig­a­tions;

d.

the De­fence Group⁵¹¹;

e.⁵¹² the State Sec­ret­ari­at for Mi­gra­tion⁵¹³;

f.⁵¹⁴

...

g.

the can­ton­al im­mig­ra­tion au­thor­it­ies;

h.

the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for road traffic mat­ters;

i.⁵¹⁵

the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the con­duct of per­son­al se­cur­ity checks in terms of Art­icle 2 para­graph 2 let­ter a of the Fed­er­al Act of 21 March 1997⁵¹⁶ on Meas­ures to Safe­guard In­tern­al Se­cur­ity;

j.⁵¹⁷ the Fed­er­al Of­fice for Ci­vil­ian Ser­vice⁵¹⁸;

k.⁵¹⁹

the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for de­cisions on in­eligib­il­ity for civil de­fence ser­vice;

l.⁵²⁰

the Fed­er­al Wit­ness Pro­tec­tion Agency in ac­cord­ance with the Fed­er­al Act of 23 Decem­ber 2011⁵²¹ on Ex­tra-Pro­ced­ur­al Wit­ness Pro­tec­tion in or­der to ful­fil their tasks;

m.⁵²²

the FIS;

n.⁵²³

the can­ton­al po­lice au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for cla­ri­fy­ing the se­cur­ity risk in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 108c AviA⁵²⁴.

^2bis The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may also have on­line ac­cess to the per­son­al data on con­vic­tions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 366 para­graphs 3 let­ters c:

a.

the De­fence Group⁵²⁵ for the pur­poses of as­sess­ing eli­gib­il­ity for re­cruit­ment, ex­clu­sion from the armed forces, or read­mis­sion to the armed forces or de­mo­tion un­der the ArmA⁵²⁶, the as­sess­ment of grounds for re­fus­ing to is­sue a per­son­al weapon un­der the ArmA, and the as­sess­ment of suit­ab­il­ity for pro­mo­tion or ap­point­ment un­der the;

b.⁵²⁷

the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for per­son­nel se­cur­ity screen­ing un­der Art­icle 2 para­graph 2 let­ter a of the Fed­er­al Act of 21 March 1997 on Meas­ures to Safe­guard In­tern­al Se­cur­ity;

c.

au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the ad­min­is­tra­tion of ci­vil­ian crim­in­al justice in or­der to con­duct crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings (Art. 365 para. 2 let. a);

d.

can­ton­al co­ordin­a­tion of­fices and the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Justice in or­der to ful­fil their stat­utory du­ties in re­la­tion to keep­ing re­gisters;

e.

the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the ex­e­cu­tion of sen­tences and meas­ures in or­der to ex­ecute sen­tences and meas­ures (Art. 365 para. 2 let. c).⁵²⁸

^2ter Au­thor­it­ies in terms of para­graphs 2 let­ters c–l and 2^sep­ties may ac­cess judge­ments that in­clude an ex­pul­sion or­der for as long as the per­son con­cerned is sub­ject to that or­der. If the peri­od un­der Art­icle 369 is longer, that peri­od ap­plies as the dur­a­tion of ac­cess.⁵²⁹

^2quater In or­der to ful­fil its du­ties un­der Art­icle 365 para­graph 2 let­ters n–q, the fed­er­al of­fice re­spons­ible for the re­gister shall no­ti­fy the De­fence Group reg­u­larly of the fol­low­ing data newly re­cor­ded in VOSTRA re­lat­ing to per­sons eli­gible for mil­it­ary ser­vice, mem­bers of the armed forces and per­sons re­quired to do civil de­fence ser­vice:⁵³⁰

a.

con­vic­tions for felon­ies or mis­de­mean­ours;

b.

cus­todi­al meas­ures;

c.

de­cisions on breaches of pro­ba­tion by per­sons sub­ject to re­cruit­ment and mem­bers of the armed forces.⁵³¹

^2quin­quies No­tice is giv­en of the per­son­al de­tails of Swiss na­tion­als over the age of 17 who are re­gistered in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2^quater. If the Armed Forces Joint Staff iden­ti­fies a re­por­ted per­son as be­ing sub­ject to re­cruit­ment or as a mem­ber of the armed forces, the of­fice re­spons­ible for the re­gister also provides the data on the con­vic­tion and sen­tence.⁵³²

^2sex­ies No­tice and iden­ti­fic­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2^quin­quies may be ef­fected via an elec­tron­ic in­ter­face between the Armed Forces Per­son­nel In­form­a­tion Sys­tem (PISA) and the re­gister.⁵³³

^2sep­ties For the pur­pose of car­ry­ing out back­ground checks with a view to grant­ing or with­draw­ing re­cog­ni­tion as a "Youth and Sport" of­ficer, the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Sport may by writ­ten re­quest in­spect per­son­al data re­lat­ing to crim­in­al con­vic­tions.⁵³⁴

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may, if the num­ber of re­quests for in­form­a­tion so jus­ti­fies, after con­sult­ing the Fed­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion and In­form­a­tion Com­mis­sion­er⁵³⁵ and un­til form­al le­gis­la­tion on the rel­ev­ant leg­al prin­ciples comes in­to force, ex­tend the rights of in­spec­tion un­der para­graph 2 to ad­di­tion­al fed­er­al and can­ton­al law en­force­ment and ad­min­is­trat­ive au­thor­it­ies.

⁴ Per­son­al data in re­la­tion to pending crim­in­al pro­ceed­ings may only be pro­cessed by the au­thor­it­ies lis­ted in para­graph 2 let­ters a–e, i, j
and l–n.⁵³⁶

^4bis ...⁵³⁷

^4ter For the pur­pose of car­ry­ing out back­ground checks with a view to grant­ing or sus­pend­ing re­cog­ni­tion as a "Youth and Sport" of­ficer, the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Sport may by writ­ten re­quest in­spect per­son­al data re­lat­ing to crim­in­al con­vic­tions.⁵³⁸

⁵ Each can­ton shall es­tab­lish a co­ordin­a­tion of­fice for the pro­cessing of the data in the re­gister.

⁶ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil reg­u­lates the de­tails, and in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

re­spons­ib­il­ity for data pro­cessing;

b.

the cat­egor­ies of data to be re­cor­ded and their re­ten­tion peri­ods;

c.

co­oper­a­tion with the au­thor­it­ies con­cerned;

d.

the du­ties of the co­ordin­a­tion of­fices;

e.

the right to in­form­a­tion and the oth­er pro­ced­ur­al rights for the pro­tec­tion of the per­sons con­cerned;

f.

data se­cur­ity;

g.

the au­thor­it­ies that may re­port per­son­al data in writ­ten form, enter data in the re­gister, con­sult the re­gister or to which per­son­al data may be dis­closed in in­di­vidu­al cases;

h.

the passing on of elec­tron­ic data to the Swiss Fed­er­al Stat­ist­ic­al Of­fice.