Ordinance
on the Surveillance of Post and Telecommunications
(SPTO)

¹ The sur­veil­lance or­der sub­mit­ted to the PTSS shall con­tain the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

the con­tact de­tails of the or­der­ing au­thor­ity;

b.

the con­tact de­tails of the au­thor­ised per­sons en­vis­aged as re­cip­i­ents of the sur­veil­lance data;

c.

if known, the sur­name, first name, date of birth, ad­dress and oc­cu­pa­tion of the per­son to be placed un­der sur­veil­lance;

d.

the ref­er­ence num­bers and case names for the sur­veil­lance activ­it­ies;

e.

the reas­on for sur­veil­lance, in par­tic­u­lar the of­fence to be in­vest­ig­ated by means of sur­veil­lance;

f.

the names of the per­sons or en­tit­ies re­quired to co­oper­ate;

g.

the types of sur­veil­lance ordered or the type of spe­cial sur­veil­lance;

h.

the iden­ti­fi­ers sub­ject to sur­veil­lance (tar­get ID);

i.

if ne­ces­sary, an ap­plic­a­tion for gen­er­al au­thor­isa­tion for the sur­veil­lance of sev­er­al con­nec­tions without au­thor­isa­tion in spe­cif­ic cases (Art. 272 para. 2 and 3 Crim­PC or Art. 70c para. 2 and 3 MCPC);

j.

the start­ing date and the dur­a­tion of the sur­veil­lance;

k.

in the case of per­sons bound by pro­fes­sion­al secrecy in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 271 Crim­PC or Art­icle 70b MCPC: a note to this ef­fect;

l.

if need be, meas­ures to pro­tect per­sons hold­ing pro­fes­sion­al secrets and fur­ther pro­tec­tion meas­ures that the au­thor­it­ies and the PTSS must take.

² If con­duct­ing the sur­veil­lance so re­quires, the FD­JP may provide that the sur­veil­lance or­der sub­mit­ted to the PTSS must in­clude fur­ther tech­nic­al de­tails.