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Art. 19 Obligations of providers of postal services
1 At the request of the Service, providers of postal services must deliver to the ordering authority or to the authority designated by the ordering authority: the post addressed to or mailed by the person under surveillance; b. the data that indicates with whom, when and from where the person under surveillance is or was communicating, as well as the technical characteristics of the post concerned (secondary data of postal services). 2 The order may require real-time surveillance to be carried out and the handover of the retained secondary data of postal services from past communications (retroactive surveillance). 3 The Federal Council shall specify the permissible types of surveillance and shall regulate for each type of surveillance the data to be supplied by the various providers. 4 Providers must retain the secondary data of postal services specified by the Federal Council on the basis of paragraph 3 for 6 months. 5 Subject to the prior consent of the authority responsible for the
Art. 20 Information before ordering surveillance
Providers of postal services must provide the Service, at its request, with the information required for ordering surveillance.