Federal Act
on Unfair Competition
(Unfair Competition Act, UCA)

¹ The fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for im­ple­ment­ing this Act may in the con­text of their co­oper­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 21 dis­close to for­eign au­thor­it­ies and in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions or bod­ies data re­lat­ing to per­sons and activ­it­ies, and in par­tic­u­lar re­lat­ing to:

a.

per­sons in­volved in an un­fair busi­ness prac­tice;

b.

the send­ing of ad­vert­ising ma­ter­i­al and oth­er doc­u­ments that in­dic­ate the ex­ist­ence of an un­fair busi­ness prac­tice;

c.

the fin­an­cial mod­al­it­ies of the trans­ac­tion;

d.

the clos­ure of post of­fice boxes.

² They may dis­close the data if the data re­cip­i­ents provide an as­sur­ance that they will grant re­cip­roc­al rights and only pro­cess data for the pur­pose of com­bat­ing un­fair busi­ness prac­tices. Art­icles 16 and 17 of the Data Pro­tec­tion Act of 25 Septem­ber 2020⁴⁷ oth­er­wise ap­ply.⁴⁸

³ If the data re­cip­i­ent is an in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tion or an in­ter­na­tion­al body, they may dis­close the data without be­ing gran­ted re­cip­roc­al rights.