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Published on 2 October 2024

General terms of use for AGOV user accounts

The use of a AGOV user account is subject to certain conditions. The most important ones are summarised here.

The link between a AGOV user account and the RPC is created in the background during the account creation process according to the following simplified scheme:

The authorisations are then authorised according to the desired user profile (Principle of linking and administrative processes).

Please note the following information about the user accounts AGOV:

  • A user account is required for various federal applications (tax administration, radiation protection, tobacco, chemicals, etc.)
  • The user account is personal
  • For data protection reasons, the administration/responsibility of the user accounts lies exclusively with the account holders concerned.
  • Several Swiss registration companies with different user profiles can be assigned to one user account at
  • The user account owns the authorship of certain data in the RPC

Help for the AGOV user account:
eIAM Help — eIAM Help Pages