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510.292Federal Council ordinanceKeepCompleted

Verordnung vom 17. Oktober 2012 über die elektronische Kriegführung und die Funkaufklärung (VEKF)

Federal Council ordinanceLanguage DEDocument 17 October 2012In force 1 November 2012
Published verdict
Keep

The law broadly serves citizens without excessive burden.

Summary

This ordinance assigns the CEA to conduct Swiss radio intelligence and army electronic warfare. It authorizes the federal and army intelligence services to issue written radio-intelligence tasks limited to security-relevant events abroad, defines purposes such as terrorism, proliferation, espionage, foreign conflicts, military threats, cyber threats, and army deployments, sets retention and destruction rules for captured data, requires immediate destruction of recognized domestic data subject to NDG exceptions, channels foreign specialist contacts through the NDB, regulates security classification, empowers the army to impair the electromagnetic spectrum with special approval on non-military frequencies, and allows technical support to civilian authorities for a fee.

Verdict reason
This is a core state-coordination ordinance for foreign signals intelligence and military electronic warfare, with explicit limits to foreign targets, written tasking, retention rules, and domestic-data deletion. If removed, Switzerland would lose a hard-to-replicate institutional framework for national defense and intelligence rather than shed an ordinary market-distorting regulation.
Review details
Status
Completed
Model
gpt-5.4
Method
better-switzerland-v2
Attempts
1
Input tokens
5367
Output tokens
210
Total tokens
5577
Estimated cost
$0.0166
Record metadata
Document date
17 October 2012
Entry into force
1 November 2012
Applicability
1 January 2024
Type
Federal Council ordinance
Display ID
510.292
Canonical record
https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/cc/2012/638
Family URI
https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/cc/2012/638
Language
DE
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