Commentaries: Art. 70

The Federal Council shall exercise political governance over the FIS and carry out the following tasks in particular for that purpose:
1. It shall issue the FIS with a basic mission and renew this mission at least every four years; the basic mission shall remain secret.
2. It shall authorise the watch list in accordance with Article 72 every year and submit it to the CDel; the watch list is confidential.
3. It shall determine the groups every year that must be categorised as violent-extremist groups and shall take note of the number of violent extremists that cannot be assigned to any known group.
4. It shall assess the threat situation every year and as required in the event of incidents and shall inform the Federal Assembly and the general public.
5. It shall order the required measures in the case of special threat situations.
6. It shall decide every year on how the FIS will cooperate with foreign authorities.
The documents in connection with the tasks in paragraph 1 shall not be made accessible to the public.
The Federal Council may on its own initiative conclude international agreements on the international cooperation of the FIS in relation to the protection of information or participation in international automated information systems in accordance with Article 12 paragraph 1 letter e.