The General Secretariat shall carry out the functions provided for in Art. 42 LOGA and performs the following tasks at the departmental level:

A.

Supporting the Chief of the SPPD in his role as a member of the Federal Council and in the conduct of the DDPS business;

B. ¹

It is responsible for strategy and internal review;

B ^Bis . ²

It initiates, plans, co-ordinates and controls the affairs of the department and monitors, in particular, important interdepartmental matters;

C.

Implements the strategic objectives of the Federal Council and the Chief of DDPS, formulates the corresponding policy objectives and ensures their implementation by the groups and offices of the DDPS;

C ^Bis . ³

Assisting the Head of the Department in the development and implementation of the security and defence policy;

D.

Ensuring strategic resource management;

E.

Ensuring the collection of information and documentation, planning of information and communication;

F. ⁴

Directing the library, documentation and archival affairs within the DDPS and the institution;

G.

It provides legal and legal advice and law enforcement.

H. ⁵

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¹ The Secretariat is responsible for the direction and coordination of federal government libraries.

² It ensures collaboration within the federal government in the area of preservation and provision of information and documentation.

The DDPS Mediation Service is administratively attached to the General Secretariat.

¹ The Confederation Intelligence Service (SRC) performs tasks in accordance with s. 1 of the Federal Act of 3 October 2008 on Civil Intelligence (LFRC) ² And in accordance with the Order of 4 December 2009 on the Federal Intelligence Service ³ .

² The CBC guarantees the domestic and foreign intelligence service in accordance with the legal provisions and the requirements of the department.

³ It has the following objectives:

A.

It contributes significantly to security and freedom in Switzerland;

B.

It is the civilian intelligence service of Switzerland;

C.

It is the centre of competence of the Confederation for preventive internal and external security intelligence and police operations;

D.

It is the interlocutor for all the services of the Confederation and the cantons and, at the national level, it responds to integrated intelligence.

⁴ To achieve these objectives, it performs the following functions:

A.

Acquiring information about important security policy abroad;

B.

Apprehended tasks to ensure internal security;

C.

Managing the Federal Situation Centre and ensuring an overall assessment and presentation of the threat;

D.

Manages the Atome and War Materials central offices and the asset control information service;

E. ⁴

Manages the Situation and Analysis Centre for the MELANI Information Security Registration and Analysis Centre, used for intelligence purposes;

F.

It is responsible for making presentations on the security situation and outlining the status of the intelligence situation in intercantonal, national and international events;

⁵ It is subordinate to the Head of the Department as a Federal Office.

¹ The objectives of the Office of the Chief Auditor are to:

A.

Ensuring that military justice fulfills its legal duties;

B.

It creates the general conditions for the jurisprudence of high quality military tribunals.

² To achieve these objectives, it has the following tasks:

A.

Exercising military justice oversight while respecting the independence of military tribunals;

B.

Advising and supporting members of the military justice system and ensuring their technical training and development;

C.

It ensures the conduct of military criminal proceedings in accordance with the law and in a regulatory manner;

D.

It ensures the administrative and organizational tasks of military justice.

¹ The Defence Group is headed by the head of the army.

² In accordance with the policy directives, it pursues the following objectives:

A.

It ensures the availability of the army in the perspective of:

1.

Sectoral security and defence,

2.

The prevention and control of existential hazards,

3.

Promotion of peace;

B.

Ensuring the development of the military in the context of future requirements.

³ To achieve these objectives, it has the following tasks:

A.

Appreciate the situation that matters to the art;

B.

Ensures an army base availability that is consistent with the situation;

C.

Plans and directs military engagements until the election of the Commander-in-Chief (General);

D.

Defines military doctrine;

E.

Leads overall military planning;

F.

Assigning mandates to the Armasuisse group.

Are subordinate to the Defence Grouping with the following functions:

A. ¹

The Military Staff:

1.

Supports the Chief of the Army in the conduct of the Defence Grouping,

2.

Establishes the overall strategic and military planning, the military doctrine and the bases for the development of the Defence and Defence Group.

3. ²

Is responsible for security management for the DDPS and the military.

B. ³

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C.

The army's leadership staff:

1.

Responsible for the management of the availability and planning of military commitments,

2.

Supporting the Chief of the Army to lead the commitments of the Army;

D.

Senior military officer training: it is responsible for the training and development of military professionals and militia officers;

E.

The Land Forces: they ensure the basic and operational availability of subordinate formations;

F.

The Air Forces: they ensure the basic and operational availability of subordinate formations;

G.

The army's logistics base: it carries out the cross-tasks of the Land Forces and the Air Force and supports them for training and engagement;

H. ⁴

The Command Aid Base: it provides benefits for all military command assistance and for the technical support of national crisis management in the fields of information and communication technologies (ICT), infrastructure of conduct, methods of conduct, the conduct of electronic warfare, cryptology and radio of ambassadors; it also provides regular benefits in the field of ICT for the benefit of the administration Of the DDPS.

¹ The Security of Information and Objects (SIO), attached to the Military Staff, leads the security management for the DDPS and the army in specific areas, such as information, people, property and security of The environment within the meaning of s. 10 of the Act of 7 October 1983 on the protection of the environment ³ . ⁴

² It fulfils the tasks set out in Art. 2 of the Military Security Order of 14 December 1998 ⁵ .

³ In addition, it undertakes the following inter-departmental tasks:

A.

Duties under s. 20 A The Order of 4 July 2007 concerning the protection of the information of the Confederation ⁶ ;

B.

The tasks set out in the Ordinance of 19 December 2001 on security checks on persons ⁷ ;

C.

The tasks set out in the Ordinance of 9 June 2006 on security checks relating to persons in the field of nuclear installations ⁸ .

⁴ It shall issue directives and instructions in the fields referred to in para. 1.

¹ The chief medical officer of the army is responsible for monitoring:

A.

Medical assessment of the aptitude for military service and the ability to do military service;

B.

Medical assessment of the aptitude for the civil protection service.

² It ensures the protection and security of health data.

³ It is the body of recourse for medical decisions taken by the Institute of Aeronautical Medicine.

⁴ It shall be responsible for assessing the health status of general officers and other persons, to the extent that such an assessment is prescribed or provided for.

¹ As a centre for military and civilian systems and in accordance with the political guidelines, the Federal Office for Armaments (Armasuisse) provides the army, the DDPS and the third parties, in accordance with the economic principles, on a sustainable and timely basis, Products and services in the areas of weapons systems, computer systems and equipment.

² To pursue this objective as a central purchasing service within the meaning of the ordinance of 24 October 2012 on the organisation of government procurement (Org-OMP) ¹ , armasuisse performs the following tasks:

A.

Supporting the Army and DDPS in the planning of systems and equipment;

B.

Provides preliminary assessment, evaluation, first acquisition, subsequent acquisition and introduction of complex defence and security sector technical systems;

C.

It acquires, on behalf of the federal government as a whole, the goods and services concerned by the Annex to the Org-OMP; it operates a competence centre for tenders under the WTO;

D.

Supporting the Army and DDPS in the operation and maintenance of systems and equipment;

E.

Liquid systems and equipment that are no longer included in the military inventory.

¹ The Armasuisse administrative units Science and Technology and Armasuisse Real Estate are subordinate to armasuisse.

² The Armasuisse Administrative Unit Science and Technology performs the following tasks:

A.

As a DDPS technology centre, it puts its scientific and technical expertise at the disposal of the army and the DDPS and covers scientific and technological needs within the framework of networks and cooperation with partners National and international;

B. It tests and evaluates the ability to engage, the adequacy of the function and the effects, and the security requirements of current and future systems in the defence and security sectors.

³ The administrative unit armasuisse Immobilier assumes the role of construction and building services for the housing portfolio of the DDPS according to the order of 5 December 2008 concerning the management of the property and the logistics of the Confederation ¹ .

¹ In accordance with the political guidelines, the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) is the national competence centre of the Swiss Confederation for the description, representation and archiving of geodata with spatial reference (geoinformation).

² To pursue the objectives set out in the Law of 5 October 2007 on Geoinformation (LGéo) ² , swisstopo performs the following tasks:

A.

It organises a modern, national, three-dimensional measurement that provides relevant data and quality;

B.

Providing geodetic, topographical, cartographic and geological products and services adapted to the needs of civilian and military clients;

C.

It safeguards the geoinformation to trace the history of land development and the environment;

D.

Establishing geological bases for the exploitation of the riches of the subsoil and operating the Mont Terri research laboratory;

E.

Providing services in the areas of geoinformatics and geoinformation within the federal government;

F.

Coordinates the needs of the federal government in the areas of geoinformation and national geology by managing a coordinating body for each of them, empowered to issue directives;

G.

It assumes the general direction and supervision of the official measurement and cadastre of restrictions of public law on land ownership;

H.

Performing other tasks assigned to him by legislation in the field of geoinformation.

¹ The Federal Office for the Protection of Population pursues the following objectives in accordance with the policy guidelines:

A.

It contributes, in collaboration with the cantons and municipalities, to the overall protection of the population, its means of existence and cultural property against the consequences of disasters, emergencies and armed conflicts;

B.

It contributes, with the assistance of its partners, to dealing with such events.

² For these purposes, it performs the following tasks: ¹

A.

It identifies the threats and dangers to which the population, its livelihoods and cultural property are exposed, develops strategies and technologies to deal with these events, and provides research and development Necessary;

B.

It is responsible for the measurement and the alarm in the event of extraordinary events such as increased radioactivity, major accidents involving materials or chemical organisms or floods, and constitutes with the Central National Alarm the key element of a centralized engagement organization at the Confederation level;

C.

Developing the necessary bases for the organisation and administration of civil protection, training in this field, equipment and works of protection;

D.

Monitoring the implementation by the cantons of the federal civil protection requirements and supporting them in the training and engagement of the population protection organisations;

E. ²

It allows for the dissemination of information in extraordinary situations by making available the necessary technical infrastructure in the event of a failure of ordinary civilian resources.

¹ The Federal Office of Sport is the Confederation's centre of competence in sport. It encourages, in accordance with the policy directives, the sustainable development of sport and physical activity as elements of physical capacity, health, training, social integration and social cohesion.

² In this context, it includes the following tasks:

A.

Develops objectives and strategies for encouraging and assessing the consequences of sport and physical activity;

B.

Delineof responsibilities in the areas of health and physical activity on a daily basis, in accordance with those of other federal administrative units competent in the field;

C.

It leads and supports programmes and projects to encourage sport and physical activity for the entire population, especially for children and young people;

D.

Publishing manuals and educational materials to support their incentive activities and distribute them free of charge or against payment;

E.

It encourages and supports, in collaboration with national federations, elite and emerging sport in competitive sport, as well as the organisation of international sports events in Switzerland;

F.

Supporting the planning and construction of sport facilities of national significance;

G.

Manages the Federal High School of Sport in Macolin, which provides education, research and benefits;

H.

Manages courses and sports centres in Macolin and Tenero, as well as in other locations where necessary;

I.

Taking action to encourage ethics and safety in sport;

J.

It provides benefits to sport in the arena;

K.

Acquiring the sports equipment of the Confederation;

L.

Manages a documentation centre in the field of sport;

M.

It provides commercial benefits in its area of activity;

N.

It accords its measures with those of the cantons, municipalities and sports organisations and works with them.