Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

of 5 October 2007 (Status as of 1 July 2022)


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Art. 269ter Use of special software for the surveillance of telecommunications 108

1 The pub­lic pro­sec­utor may or­der the in­tro­duc­tion of spe­cial soft­ware in­to a data pro­cessing sys­tem in or­der to in­ter­cept and re­cov­er the con­tent of com­mu­nic­a­tions and tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions metadata in un­en­cryp­ted form provided:

a.
the con­di­tions of Art­icle 269 para­graphs 1 and 3 are met;
b.
the pro­ceed­ings re­late to an of­fence lis­ted in Art­icle 286 para­graph 2;
c.
pre­vi­ous tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions sur­veil­lance meas­ures un­der Art­icle 269 have been un­suc­cess­ful or sur­veil­lance with these meas­ures would be fu­tile or dis­pro­por­tion­ately dif­fi­cult.

2 In the sur­veil­lance or­der, the pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall spe­cify:

a.
the de­sired data types; and
b.
the non-pub­lic spaces that may have to be entered in or­der to in­tro­duce spe­cial soft­ware in­to the rel­ev­ant data pro­cessing sys­tem.

3 Data not covered by para­graph that is col­lec­ted when us­ing such soft­ware must be des­troyed im­me­di­ately. No use may be made of in­form­a­tion ob­tained from such data.

4 The pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall keep stat­ist­ics on these forms of sur­veil­lance. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the de­tails.

108 In­ser­ted by An­nex No II 1 of the FA of 18 March 2016 on the Sur­veil­lance of Postal and Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions Traffic, in force since 1 March 2018 (AS 2018 117; BBl 2013 2683).

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