Ordinance
on the Surveillance of Post and Telecommunications
(SPTO)

¹ TSPs and pro­viders of de­rived com­mu­nic­a­tion ser­vices with more ex­tens­ive du­ties to provide in­form­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 22 must be able to provide the in­form­a­tion spe­cified in Art­icles 35–37 and 40–48 as well as in Art­icle 27 in con­junc­tion with Art­icles 35, 40, 42 and 43 that relates to ser­vices that they provide. They may en­list the sup­port of third parties to do so.

² They shall provide the in­form­a­tion spe­cified in Art­icles 35–37 and 40–42 and in Art­icle 27 in con­junc­tion with Art­icles 35, 40 and 42 in an auto­mated pro­cess via the query in­ter­face of the PTSS pro­cessing sys­tem. They may also provide the in­form­a­tion spe­cified in Art­icles 43–48 and in Art­icle 27 in con­junc­tion with Art­icle 43 manu­ally.

³ TSPs with re­duced sur­veil­lance du­ties in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 51 may also provide in­form­a­tion of all types out­side of the pro­cessing sys­tem in writ­ing.

⁴ TSPs, with the ex­cep­tion of those with re­duced sur­veil­lance du­ties in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 51, and the pro­viders of de­rived com­mu­nic­a­tion ser­vices with more ex­tens­ive sur­veil­lance du­ties in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 52 must be able to provide the in­form­a­tion spe­cified in Art­icles 38 and 39 that relates to ser­vices that they provide via the query in­ter­face of the PTSS pro­cessing sys­tem. They may en­list the sup­port of third parties to do so.

⁵ Pro­viders of de­rived com­mu­nic­a­tion ser­vices without more ex­tens­ive du­ties to provide in­form­a­tion and con­duct sur­veil­lance and op­er­at­ors of in­tern­al tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions net­works are not re­quired to provide in­form­a­tion of the types spe­cified in Art­icles 35–48 and in Art­icle 27 in con­junc­tion with Art­icles 35, 40, 42 and 43. They shall sup­ply the in­form­a­tion avail­able to them via the pro­cessing sys­tem or by a dif­fer­ent meth­od in writ­ten form.

⁶ If the num­ber the data re­cords found ex­ceeds the max­im­um value spe­cified in the re­quest, the pro­vider shall only dis­close their num­ber.