Swiss Criminal Procedure Code

¹The sur­veil­lance of post and tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions re­quires the au­thor­isa­tion of the com­puls­ory meas­ures court.

²If en­quir­ies re­veal that the per­son un­der sur­veil­lance is chan­ging his or her tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vice reg­u­larly, the com­puls­ory meas­ures court may by way of ex­cep­tion au­thor­ise the sur­veil­lance of all iden­ti­fied ser­vices used by the per­son un­der sur­veil­lance for tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions so that au­thor­isa­tion is not re­quired in each in­di­vidu­al case (gen­er­al au­thor­isa­tion).¹ The pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall sub­mit a re­port to the com­puls­ory meas­ures court for ap­prov­al every month and on con­clu­sion of the sur­veil­lance.

³If dur­ing the sur­veil­lance of a ser­vice in terms of a gen­er­al au­thor­isa­tion, meas­ures are re­quired to pro­tect pro­fes­sion­al con­fid­en­ti­al­ity and such meas­ures are not men­tioned in the gen­er­al au­thor­isa­tion, an ap­plic­a­tion for au­thor­isa­tion for the in­di­vidu­al sur­veil­lance op­er­a­tion con­cerned must be sub­mit­ted to the com­puls­ory meas­ures court.²