Swiss Criminal Procedure Code
(Criminal Procedure Code, CrimPC)

¹ The fol­low­ing items may not be seized ir­re­spect­ive of their loc­a­tion and of when they were cre­ated:

a.

doc­u­ments used in com­mu­nic­a­tions between the ac­cused and his or her de­fence law­yer;

b.

per­son­al re­cords and cor­res­pond­ence be­long­ing to the ac­cused if the in­terest in pro­tect­ing his or her pri­vacy out­weighs the in­terest in pro­sec­u­tion;

c.¹⁴⁶

items and doc­u­ments used in com­mu­nic­a­tions between the ac­cused and per­sons who may re­fuse to testi­fy in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 170–173 and who are not ac­cused of an of­fence re­lat­ing to the same case;

d.¹⁴⁷

items and doc­u­ments used in com­mu­nic­a­tions between an­oth­er per­son and his or her law­yer provided the law­yer is en­titled to rep­res­ent cli­ents be­fore Swiss courts in ac­cord­ance with the Law­yers Act of 23 June 2000¹⁴⁸ and is not ac­cused an of­fence re­lat­ing to the same case.

² The re­stric­tions in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 do not ap­ply to items and as­sets that must be seized with a view to their re­turn to the per­son suf­fer­ing harm or their for­feit­ure.

³ If the hold­er of items or as­sets claims that their seizure is not per­mit­ted, the crim­in­al justice au­thor­it­ies shall pro­ceed in ac­cord­ance with the reg­u­la­tions on the seal­ing of evid­ence.¹⁴⁹