Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ If there is a strong sus­pi­cion that a felony or mis­de­mean­our or a con­tra­ven­tion in terms of Art­icle 179^sep­ties SCC¹¹⁶ has been com­mit­ted, and if the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 269 para­graph 1 let­ters b and c of this Code are met, the pub­lic pro­sec­utor may re­quest metadata re­lat­ing to tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 8 let­ter b of the Fed­er­al Act of 18 March 2016¹¹⁷ on the Sur­veil­lance of Postal and Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions Traffic (SPTA) and metadata re­lat­ing to post in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 19 para­graph 1 let­ter b SPTA re­lat­ing to the per­son un­der sur­veil­lance.

² The or­der re­quires the ap­prov­al of the com­puls­ory meas­ures court.

³ The in­form­a­tion men­tioned in para­graph 1 may be re­ques­ted ir­re­spect­ive of the dur­a­tion of sur­veil­lance and for the 6 months pri­or to the date of the re­quest.