This order regulates the operation and use of the Labour Market Information and Statistics System (PLASTA) and its subsystems.

The information system consists of the following subsystems:

A.

The main file "PLASTA", in which data and information on job-seekers, job offers, undertakings and labour market measures are processed;

B.

The "ODS-PLASTA" application, for the management and statistical evaluations of data entered into PLASTA;

C.

The 'GED-PLASTA' application for the processing of applicants'and businesses' files;

D.

The "eGovernment-PLASTA" application, for the publication of non-personal PLASTA data and the registration of job offers and job seekers.

The purpose of the information system is to:

A.

The implementation of unemployment insurance and the public employment service and the monitoring and control of this implementation;

B.

Collaboration between the unemployment insurance bodies, the public employment service and vocational guidance;

C.

Collaboration between the unemployment insurance bodies and the public employment service, private employment agencies and employers;

D.

Collaboration between the bodies of unemployment insurance, the public employment service and the State Secretariat for Migration ¹ For the performance of the tasks set out in Art. 25, para. 2 and 3, LSE;

E.

Inter-institutional coordination and collaboration between the bodies of unemployment insurance, public employment and social insurance;

F.

Labour market observation and labour market statistics.

¹ The following bodies are linked to the information system:

A.

The compensation body for unemployment insurance;

B.

The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO);

C.

Cantonal authorities;

D.

Regional investment offices;

E.

Logistics services for labour market measures;

F.

Unemployment funds;

G. ¹

Social assistance bodies.

² The following bodies may be linked to the information system to use its functions and backup capabilities:

A.

The State Secretariat for Migration to coordinate its activities on the advice and placement of Swiss immigrants returning to the country and Swiss and foreign trainees with the bodies of the public employment service;

B.

The disability insurance bodies to coordinate their counselling and placement activities for persons with disabilities with the public employment service bodies;

C.

Vocational guidance services to coordinate their counselling and job placement activities with the public employment service bodies.

¹ The data that can be processed in the information system are listed in the Annex.

² Organs linked to the information system can only process the data they need to carry out their legal tasks. Data processing fees are defined in the Annex.

The annexed data may be included in the following systems:

A.

The system of payment of unemployment funds (SIPAC);

B.

The Federal Statistical Office's Business and Institutional Register (EAR);

C.

The Central de Compensation (CoC) system.

The information system can notify the Federal Office of Statistics of new businesses and changes to the IDE register.

¹ Documents can be backed up to digital media. They must be able to reproduce faithfully.

² Documents and data are retained for three years after the close of the case. They are then destroyed to the extent that they contain personal data. Art. 8 is reserved.

The release of information from the information system to the Federal Archives is governed by the Federal Act of June 26, 1998 on Archiving ¹ .

¹ The bodies linked to the information system comply with the relevant provisions of the data protection legislation for the data they deal with.

² The Unemployment Insurance Compensation Body and the SECO grant access rights to the information system and data processing rights and ensure that the data protection provisions are respected.

³ Access to the information system must be secured by a personal user profile and password.

¹ The information system bodies shall take the necessary security measures to prevent unauthorized third parties from accessing the data.

² The compensation body for unemployment insurance and the SECO shall, in cooperation with the Federal Office of Information and Telecommunications, take the necessary measures to ensure that the data and programmes withdrawn, lost or otherwise Involuntarily destroyed may be reconstituted.

³ The SECO lays down an operating regulation in which it defines its internal organisation, data processing and control procedures, and security measures.

¹ The rights of the data subject, including the right of access, the right to rectification or destruction of the data shall be governed by the Federal Law of 19 June 1992 on Data Protection ¹ .

² When the data subject claims his or her rights, he or she must present a piece of identification and a written request to the body that seized the data. She may also apply to the Unemployment Insurance Compensation Body or the SECO.

³ If the body to which the application was addressed totally or partially rejects the application, it shall inform the person concerned in the form of a decision subject to appeal.

⁴ Corrections, supplements and destruction of data shall be communicated to the bodies which have access to such data and to other bodies if the person concerned so wishes.

¹ The Unemployment Insurance Compensation Body is responsible for the development and operation of the information system at the organizational level and in terms of content.

² The Federal Office for Informatics and Telecommunications is responsible for the development and operation of the technical information system.

³ The unemployment insurance clearing body and the Federal Office for Informatics and Telecommunications coordinate their work with the bodies involved in the information system.

¹ The development and operation of the information system is funded by the Confederation and the unemployment insurance fund.

² The data processing facilities and networks necessary for the implementation of Unemployment Insurance and the Public Employment Service shall be financed by the Unemployment Insurance Compensation Fund in accordance with Art. 92, para. 7, LACE.

The order of 14 December 1992 on the information system for labour market placement and statistics ¹ Is repealed.

This order shall enter into force on 1 ^Er January 2007.