Ordinance
on the Surveillance of Post and Telecommunications
(SPTO)

¹ Re­quests for types of in­form­a­tion spe­cified in Art­icles 35, 40, 42 and 43 may be com­plied with by car­ry­ing out a search that tol­er­ates er­rors and finds phon­et­ic matches (flex­ible name search). In this case, the suf­fix “FLEX” shall be ad­ded to the ab­bre­vi­ation for the rel­ev­ant in­form­a­tion re­quest type: IR_5_N­A_FLEX, IR_11_TEL_FLEX, IR_14_e­mail _FLEX and IR_16_­COM_FLEX.

² The re­quest for in­form­a­tion shall in each case con­tain the first and at least one ad­di­tion­al query cri­terion for the un­der­ly­ing in­form­a­tion re­quest type.