Ordinance
to the Federal Act on Archiving
(Archiving Ordinance)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 8 September 1999 (Status as of 1 January 2021)


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Art. 20 Right to information

(Art. 15 paras. 1 and 2 ArchA)

1 Any­one may re­quest in­form­a­tion about data con­cern­ing him or her that is archived at the Fed­er­al Archives or the in­de­pend­ent archiv­ing bod­ies.

2 Be­fore is­su­ing the in­form­a­tion, the com­pet­ent body shall check the ap­plic­ant's iden­tity and de­cide wheth­er his or her re­quest is le­git­im­ate.

3 Such a re­quest for in­form­a­tion is not ad­miss­ible if the data is no longer clas­si­fied un­der the name of the per­son con­cerned or if the re­lease of the in­form­a­tion is not com­pat­ible with ef­fi­cient ad­min­is­tra­tion.

4 The right to in­form­a­tion shall fur­ther be gov­erned by the data pro­tec­tion le­gis­la­tion.

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