Commentaries: Art. 103a

SEM shall maintain an internal information system on refusals of entry in accordance with Article 65 (INAD System). It shall be used when imposing penalties for violations of the duty of care under Article 122a , and to compile statistics.
The system shall contain the following data on persons who have been refused entry to the Schengen area:
1. surname, first name, sex, date of birth, nationality;
2. details of the flight;
3. reason why entry was refused;
4. details of proceedings for violations of the duty of care under Article 122a in connection with the person concerned.
The data recorded in the system shall be anonymised after two years.
At the border crossing, the data contained in the biometric passport or on the participation card may be compared with the data in the computerised police search system (RIPOL) and the SIS.¹

Inserted by Annex 1 No 1 of the FD of 18 Dec. 2020 on the Approval and Implementation of the Exchange of Notes between Switzerland and the EU relating to the Adoption of the Legislation on the Establishment, Operation and Use of the Schengen Information System (SIS), in force since 22 Nov. 2022 (AS 2021 365; 2022 636;BBl 2020 3465). ↩

Art. 103a