The Confederation shall operate and develop a central civil information system for running a centralised civil register.
Fussnoten
- [75] Inserted by No I of the FA of 5 Oct. 2001 (Electronic civil register) (AS 2004 2911; BBl 2001 1639). Inserted by No I 1 of the FA of 15 Dec. 2017 (Registration of Civil Status and Land Register), in force since 1 Jan. 2019 (AS 2018 4017; BBl 2014 3551).
The Confederation bears the operating and development costs.
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.
The Confederation shall involve the cantons in the development of the system and provide technical support in its use.
In cooperation with the cantons, the Federal Council regulates:
the details of the cantons’ involvement in developing the system;
the amount to be paid by the cantons for its use;
the rights of access of the civil register authorities and other agencies with access rights;
how the Confederation and cantons cooperate over running the system;
76the organisational and technical measures necessary to safeguard data protection and data security and the supervision of compliance with the data protection regulations;
data archiving.
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- [76] Amended by Annex 1 No II 16 of the Data Protection Act of 25 Sept. 2020, in force since 1 Sept. 2023 (AS 2022 491; BBl 2017 6941).
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.