Swiss Civil Code

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall op­er­ate and de­vel­op a cent­ral civil in­form­a­tion sys­tem for run­ning a cent­ral­ised civil re­gister.

² The Con­fed­er­a­tion bears the op­er­at­ing and de­vel­op­ment costs.

³ The can­tons shall pay the Con­fed­er­a­tion an an­nu­al fee for the use of the sys­tem for the pur­poses of man­aging the re­gister of civil status.

⁴ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall in­volve the can­tons in the de­vel­op­ment of the sys­tem and provide tech­nic­al sup­port in its use.

⁵ In co­oper­a­tion with the can­tons, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil reg­u­lates:

1.

the de­tails of the can­tons’ in­volve­ment in de­vel­op­ing the sys­tem;

2.

the amount to be paid by the can­tons for its use;

3.

the rights of ac­cess of the civil re­gister au­thor­it­ies and oth­er agen­cies with ac­cess rights;

4.

how the Con­fed­er­a­tion and can­tons co­oper­ate over run­ning the sys­tem;

5.

the or­gan­isa­tion­al and tech­nic­al meas­ures ne­ces­sary to safe­guard data pro­tec­tion and data se­cur­ity;

6.

data archiv­ing.

⁶ It may provide for the costs of ser­vices for third parties for pur­poses un­re­lated to civil status mat­ters to be charged to these third parties.