Commentaries: Art. 1

This Ordinance regulates the organisational aspects of and procedure for the surveillance of post and telecommunications and for the provision of information on postal and telecommunications services.¹
It applies to:
1. ordering authorities and the authorities directing proceedings;
2. approval authorities;
3. federal, cantonal and communal police forces;
4. the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS);
5. the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO);
6. federal and cantonal authorities competent to deal with administrative criminal cases;
7. the Post and Telecommunications Surveillance Service (PTSS);
8. postal service providers (PSPs);
9. telecommunications service providers (TSPs);
10. ² providers of derived communication services (PDCSs);
11. operators of internal telecommunications networks;
12. persons who allow third parties to use their access to a public telecommunications network;
13. professional retailers of cards and similar means of gaining access to a public telecommunications network.

Amended by No I of the O of 15 Nov. 2023, in force since 1 Jan. 2024 (AS 2023 685). ↩
Amended by No I of the O of 15 Nov. 2023, in force since 1 Jan. 2024 (AS 2023 685). ↩

Art. 1