Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall sub­mit the fol­low­ing doc­u­ments to the com­puls­ory meas­ures court with­in 24 hours of sur­veil­lance or the re­lease of in­form­a­tion be­ing ordered:

a.

the or­der;

b.

a state­ment of the reas­ons and the case doc­u­ments rel­ev­ant for au­thor­isa­tion.

² The com­puls­ory meas­ures court shall de­cide and provide a brief state­ment of the reas­ons with­in 5 days of the sur­veil­lance or the re­lease of in­form­a­tion be­ing ordered. It may grant au­thor­isa­tion sub­ject to a time lim­it or oth­er con­di­tions, or re­quest fur­ther in­form­a­tion or in­vest­ig­a­tions.

³ The com­puls­ory meas­ures court shall give no­tice of the de­cision im­me­di­ately to the pub­lic pro­sec­utor and to the Post and Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions Sur­veil­lance Bur­eau in terms of Art­icle 3 SPTA¹¹⁸.¹¹⁹

⁴ The au­thor­isa­tion shall ex­pressly state:

a.

which meas­ures must be taken to pro­tect pro­fes­sion­al con­fid­en­ti­al­ity;

b.

wheth­er non-pub­lic spaces may be entered in or­der to in­tro­duce spe­cial soft­ware in­to the rel­ev­ant data pro­cessing sys­tem.¹²⁰

⁵ The com­puls­ory meas­ures court shall grant au­thor­isa­tion for a max­im­um of 3 months. The au­thor­isa­tion may be ex­ten­ded on one or more oc­ca­sions for a max­im­um of 3 months at a time. If an ex­ten­sion is re­quired, the pub­lic pro­sec­utor shall file an ap­plic­a­tion for the ex­ten­sion, stat­ing the reas­ons there­for, be­fore ex­piry of the cur­rent au­thor­isa­tion.