¹ A canton wishing to keep the land register electronically must obtain the approval of the Federal Department of Justice and Police.

² The Federal Council regulates:

1.

the authorisation procedure;

2.

the scope and technical details of the electronic land register, particularly the procedure by which entries become effective;

3.

whether and on what conditions electronic communication with the land register is permissible;

4.

whether and on what conditions the public will be given access to unrestricted data recorded in the main register;

5.

data access, the logging of retrieval requests and conditions for the withdrawal of user entitlements in the event of abuse;

6.

data protection;

7.

long-term data security and data archiving.

³ The Federal Department of Justice and Police and the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport define data models and standard interfaces for the land register and official land surveys.