Ordinance
on Electromagnetic Compatibility
(OEMC)

¹ This Or­din­ance ap­plies to equip­ment that is li­able to gen­er­ate elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance or whose per­form­ance is li­able to be af­fected by such dis­turb­ance.

² This Or­din­ance relates to:

a.

the of­fer­ing, mak­ing avail­able on the mar­ket, put­ting in­to ser­vice, in­stall­a­tion and use of equip­ment;

b.

the re­cog­ni­tion of test­ing labor­at­or­ies and con­form­ity as­sess­ment bod­ies;

c.

the in­spec­tion of equip­ment.

¹ In this Or­din­ance:

a.

equip­mentmeans any ap­par­at­us or fixed in­stall­a­tion;

b.

ap­par­at­usmeans:

1.

any fin­ished ap­pli­ance or com­bin­a­tion of such ap­pli­ances made avail­able on the mar­ket as a single func­tion­al unit that is in­ten­ded for the end-user and which is li­able to gen­er­ate elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance or whose per­form­ance is li­able to be af­fected by such dis­turb­ance,

2.

all com­pon­ents or sub-as­sem­blies in­ten­ded for in­cor­por­a­tion by the end-user in­to such an ap­pli­ance and which are li­able to gen­er­ate elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance, or the per­form­ance of which is li­able to be af­fected by such dis­turb­ance,

3.

a com­bin­a­tion of such ap­pli­ances and, where ap­plic­able, oth­er ap­pli­ances that are mo­bile and in­ten­ded to be op­er­ated in a range of loc­a­tions (mo­bile in­stall­a­tion);

c.

fixed in­stall­a­tion means a par­tic­u­lar com­bin­a­tion of ap­par­at­us and if ap­plic­able oth­er ap­pli­ances that are con­nec­ted or in­stalled to­geth­er and which are in­ten­ded to be used per­man­ently at a pre­defined loc­a­tion;

d.

elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance means any elec­tro­mag­net­ic phe­nomen­on which may de­grade the per­form­ance of equip­ment, such as elec­tro­mag­net­ic noise, an un­wanted sig­nal or a change in the propaga­tion me­di­um it­self;

e.

im­munity means the abil­ity of equip­ment to per­form as in­ten­ded without de­grad­a­tion in the pres­ence of elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance;

f.

of­fer­ing means any con­duct aimed at mak­ing ap­par­at­us avail­able on the mar­ket, wheth­er by ex­hib­i­tion on premises or at events, dis­play in ad­vert­ising bro­chures, cata­logues, elec­tron­ic me­dia or in any oth­er way;

g.

mak­ing avail­able on the mar­ket means any sup­ply of ap­par­at­us for dis­tri­bu­tion, con­sump­tion or use on the Swiss mar­ket, wheth­er in re­turn for pay­ment or free of charge;

h.

pla­cing on the mar­ket means the first time that an ap­par­at­us is made avail­able on the Swiss mar­ket;

i.

put­ting in­to ser­vice means the ini­tial in­stall­a­tion and op­er­a­tion of equip­ment;

j.

in­stall­a­tion means mak­ing equip­ment ready for op­er­a­tion;

k.

man­u­fac­turer means any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity that man­u­fac­tures ap­par­at­us or has ap­par­at­us de­signed or man­u­fac­tured, and mar­kets that ap­par­at­us un­der its name or trade­mark;

l.

au­thor­ised rep­res­ent­at­ive means any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity es­tab­lished in Switzer­land that has re­ceived a writ­ten man­date from a man­u­fac­turer to act on its be­half in re­la­tion to spe­cified tasks;

m.

im­port­er means any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity es­tab­lished in Switzer­land that places ap­par­at­us from abroad on the Swiss mar­ket;

n.

dis­trib­ut­or means any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity in the sup­ply chain, with the ex­cep­tion of the man­u­fac­turer or the im­port­er, that makes an ap­par­at­us avail­able on the mar­ket;

n^bis.⁴

ful­fil­ment ser­vice pro­vider means any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity that, in the course of a busi­ness activ­ity, of­fers any two of the fol­low­ing ser­vices: ware­hous­ing, pack­aging, ad­dress­ing and ship­ping of products, without be­ing the own­er of such products; not in­cluded are postal ser­vices un­der Art­icle 2 let­ter a of the Postal Ser­vices Act of 17 Decem­ber 2010⁵ and any oth­er ser­vices in­volving the move­ment of goods;

o.⁶

eco­nom­ic op­er­at­or means any man­u­fac­turer, au­thor­ised rep­res­ent­at­ive, im­port­er, dis­trib­ut­or, ful­fil­ment ser­vice pro­vider or any oth­er nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity that is sub­ject to ob­lig­a­tions con­nec­ted with man­u­fac­tur­ing, mak­ing avail­able on the mar­ket or in­stalling products;

o^bis.⁷

in­form­a­tion so­ci­ety ser­vice pro­vidermeans any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity that of­fers an in­form­a­tion so­ci­ety ser­vice, i.e. any ser­vice nor­mally provided for a con­sid­er­a­tion, at a dis­tance, elec­tron­ic­ally and at the in­di­vidu­al re­quest of a re­cip­i­ent;

p.

con­form­ity mark­ing means a mark­ing by which the man­u­fac­turer in­dic­ates that the ap­par­at­us is in con­form­ity with the ap­plic­able re­quire­ments set out in the Swiss le­gis­la­tion provid­ing for its af­fix­ing.

² The im­port of an ap­par­at­us for the Swiss mar­ket is equi­val­ent to pla­cing on the mar­ket.

³ The of­fer­ing of an ap­par­at­us is equi­val­ent to mak­ing it avail­able on the mar­ket.

⁴ The pla­cing on the mar­ket of a second-hand im­por­ted ap­par­at­us is equi­val­ent to the pla­cing of a new ap­par­at­us on the mar­ket, un­less an identic­al new ap­par­at­us has been placed on the Swiss mar­ket.

⁵ An im­port­er or dis­trib­ut­or is equi­val­ent to a man­u­fac­turer if it:

a.

places an ap­par­at­us on the mar­ket un­der its own name or its own trade­mark; or

b.

mod­i­fies an ap­par­at­us already on the mar­ket so that con­form­ity with this Or­din­ance may be com­prom­ised.

⁶ The re­pair of equip­ment is equi­val­ent to use.

This Or­din­ance does not ap­ply to:

a.

equip­ment whose elec­tro­mag­net­ic com­pat­ib­il­ity is spe­cific­ally gov­erned by oth­er le­gis­la­tion;

b.

equip­ment:

1.

which is in­cap­able of gen­er­at­ing or con­trib­ut­ing to elec­tro­mag­net­ic emis­sions that ex­ceed a level al­low­ing tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions in­stall­a­tions and oth­er equip­ment to op­er­ate as in­ten­ded, and

2.

which op­er­ates without un­ac­cept­able de­grad­a­tion in the pres­ence of the elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance nor­mally con­sequent on its in­ten­ded use;

c.

ra­dio equip­ment in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 2 para­graph 1 let­ter a of the Or­din­ance of 25 Novem­ber 2015⁸ on Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions In­stall­a­tions⁹ used by ra­dio am­a­teurs, with the ex­cep­tion of the in­stall­a­tions made avail­able on the mar­ket;

d.

kits which are to be as­sembled by ra­dio am­a­teurs and equip­ment made avail­able on the mar­ket that are mod­i­fied by and for ra­dio am­a­teurs;

e.

cus­tom-made test mod­ules used by spe­cial­ists ex­clus­ively in re­search and de­vel­op­ment fa­cil­it­ies for such pur­poses;

f.

ap­par­at­us used ex­clus­ively by the com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies to carry out tasks in ac­cord­ance with the Armed Forces Act of 3 Feb­ru­ary 1995¹⁰, the Fed­er­al Act of 21 March 1997¹¹ on Meas­ures to Safe­guard In­tern­al Se­cur­ity and the Fed­er­al Act of 3 Oc­to­ber 2008¹² on Re­spons­ib­il­it­ies in the Area of the Ci­vil­ian In­tel­li­gence Ser­vice.

Equip­ment must be so de­signed and man­u­fac­tured hav­ing re­gard to the state of the art that:

a.

the elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance gen­er­ated does not ex­ceed the level above which tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions in­stall­a­tions un­der Art­icle 3 let­ter d TCA or oth­er equip­ment can­not func­tion as in­ten­ded;

b.

it has the level of im­munity to elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance to be ex­pec­ted in its in­ten­ded use that al­lows it to op­er­ate without un­ac­cept­able de­grad­a­tion of its in­ten­ded use.

¹ The Fed­er­al Of­fice of Com­mu­nic­a­tions (OF­COM) in agree­ment with the State Sec­ret­ari­at for Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs shall des­ig­nate the tech­nic­al stand­ards that per­mit the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments of this Or­din­ance to be sat­is­fied.

² Wherever pos­sible, it shall des­ig­nate in­ter­na­tion­ally har­mon­ised stand­ards.

³ It may in­struct in­de­pend­ent Swiss stand­ards or­gan­isa­tions to draw up tech­nic­al stand­ards, or do so it­self.

⁴ It shall pub­lish the des­ig­nated tech­nic­al stand­ards by ref­er­ence in the Fed­er­al Gaz­ette¹³.

¹ Equip­ment which is in con­form­ity with the tech­nic­al stand­ards un­der Art­icle 5 or parts there­of shall be pre­sumed to be in con­form­ity with the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments for the as­pects covered by the rel­ev­ant stand­ards or parts there­of.

² In the event of changes to a des­ig­nated tech­nic­al stand­ard, OF­COM shall in­dic­ate the point in time from which the pre­sump­tion of con­form­ity stated in para­graph 1 ceases for equip­ment that com­plies with the pre­vi­ous stand­ard.

¹ Con­form­ity as­sess­ment bod­ies that draw up re­ports or is­sue de­clar­a­tions must:¹⁵

a.

be ac­cred­ited in ac­cord­ance with the Ac­cred­it­a­tion and Des­ig­na­tion Or­din­ance of 17 June 1996¹⁶;

b.

be re­cog­nised in Switzer­land by vir­tue of in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments; or

c.

be oth­er­wise qual­i­fied un­der Swiss le­gis­la­tion.

² Any per­son who re­lies on doc­u­ments is­sued by a dif­fer­ent body from that men­tioned in para­graph 1 above must cred­ibly demon­strate that the test­ing pro­ced­ures or as­sess­ments and the qual­i­fic­a­tions of this body sat­is­fy the Swiss re­quire­ments (Art. 18 para. 2 TBTA).

Ap­par­at­us may only be made avail­able on the mar­ket if it com­plies with this Or­din­ance when in­stalled and ser­viced as nor­mally re­quired and when used for its in­ten­ded pur­pose.

¹ The man­u­fac­turer must demon­strate that the ap­par­at­us con­forms to the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments of this Or­din­ance on the basis of one of the fol­low­ing con­form­ity as­sess­ment pro­ced­ures:

a.

an in­tern­al pro­duc­tion con­trol (An­nex 2);

b.

a type ex­am­in­a­tion with sub­sequent veri­fic­a­tion of con­form­ity to type on the basis of an in­tern­al pro­duc­tion con­trol (An­nex 3).

² The man­u­fac­turer may choose to re­strict the ap­plic­a­tion of the pro­ced­ure un­der para­graph 1 let­ter b to some as­pects of the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments of this Or­din­ance provided the pro­ced­ure un­der para­graph 1 let­ter a is ap­plied to the oth­er as­pects of the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments.

¹ The man­u­fac­turer shall draw up the tech­nic­al doc­u­ment­a­tion be­fore the ap­par­at­us is placed on the mar­ket and shall keep it up-to-date. The tech­nic­al doc­u­ment­a­tion must:

a.

make it pos­sible to as­sess the con­form­ity of the ap­par­at­us with the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments of this Or­din­ance; and

b.

demon­strate that the ap­par­at­us con­forms with the afore­men­tioned re­quire­ments.

² It shall list the ap­plic­able re­quire­ments and cov­er the design, man­u­fac­ture and op­er­a­tion of the ap­par­at­us in­so­far as they are rel­ev­ant to the as­sess­ment.

³ The tech­nic­al doc­u­ment­a­tion must in­clude an ad­equate ana­lys­is and as­sess­ment of risks.¹⁷

⁴ The tech­nic­al doc­u­ment­a­tion must con­tain at least the fol­low­ing ele­ments, where ap­plic­able:

a.

a gen­er­al de­scrip­tion of the ap­par­at­us;

b.

con­cep­tu­al design and man­u­fac­tur­ing draw­ings and schemes of com­pon­ents, sub-as­sem­blies, cir­cuits, etc.;

c.

de­scrip­tions and ex­plan­a­tions ne­ces­sary for the un­der­stand­ing of those draw­ings and schemes and the op­er­a­tion of the ap­par­at­us;

d.

a list of the tech­nic­al stand­ards in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 5 that have been ap­plied in full or in part, and, where stand­ards have not been ap­plied, de­scrip­tions of the solu­tions ad­op­ted to meet the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments of this Or­din­ance, in­clud­ing a list of oth­er rel­ev­ant tech­nic­al spe­cific­a­tions ap­plied. In the event of partly ap­plied tech­nic­al stand­ards in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 5, the tech­nic­al doc­u­ment­a­tion shall spe­cify the parts which have been ap­plied

e.

res­ults of design cal­cu­la­tions made, tests car­ried out, etc.;

f.

the test re­ports.

⁵ If the tech­nic­al doc­u­ment­a­tion is not provided in an of­fi­cial Swiss lan­guage or in Eng­lish, OF­COM may re­quire that all or some of the doc­u­ments be trans­lated in­to one of those lan­guages.

¹ The de­clar­a­tion of con­form­ity shall be is­sued by the man­u­fac­turer or by its au­thor­ised rep­res­ent­at­ive ac­cord­ing to the tem­plate in An­nex 4. It con­firms that com­pli­ance with the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments has been demon­strated, and shall be con­tinu­ously up­dated.

² The de­clar­a­tion of con­form­ity must be is­sued in an of­fi­cial Swiss lan­guage or in Eng­lish or trans­lated in­to one of those lan­guages.

³ If the ap­par­at­us is sub­ject to more than one set of reg­u­la­tions that re­quires a de­clar­a­tion of con­form­ity, only one de­clar­a­tion need be is­sued. A dossier com­pris­ing sev­er­al in­di­vidu­al de­clar­a­tions is equi­val­ent to a single de­clar­a­tion.

¹ The man­u­fac­turer, its au­thor­ised rep­res­ent­at­ive or, if neither of these per­sons is es­tab­lished in Switzer­land, the im­port­er must be able to pro­duce a copy of the de­clar­a­tion of con­form­ity and the tech­nic­al doc­u­ment­a­tion for ten years from the date of the pla­cing on the mar­ket.

² Where a series of ap­par­at­us is placed on the mar­ket, this peri­od be­gins on the date when the last ap­par­at­us in the series con­cerned was placed on the mar­ket.

³ The ful­fil­ment ser­vice pro­vider is sub­ject to the ob­lig­a­tion in para­graph 1 if:

a.

the man­u­fac­turer and its au­thor­ised rep­res­ent­at­ive is not es­tab­lished in Switzer­land; and

b.

the im­port­er im­ports the ap­par­at­us for its own per­son­al use.¹⁸

¹ Each ap­par­at­us must bear the con­form­ity mark­ing in ac­cord­ance with An­nex 1 point 1 or the for­eign con­form­ity mark­ing in ac­cord­ance with An­nex 1 point 2.

² The con­form­ity mark­ing must be af­fixed vis­ibly, legibly and in­delibly to the ap­par­at­us or to its data plate. Where that is not pos­sible or not war­ran­ted on ac­count of the nature of the ap­par­at­us, it shall be af­fixed to the pack­aging and to the ac­com­pa­ny­ing doc­u­ments

³ Every ap­par­at­us must be la­belled ac­cord­ing to mod­el, pro­duc­tion series, seri­al num­ber or oth­er suit­able de­tails such that it is clearly iden­ti­fi­able. If the size or nature of ap­par­at­us makes this im­possible, this in­form­a­tion must be provided on the pack­aging or in a doc­u­ment ac­com­pa­ny­ing the ap­par­at­us.

⁴ The man­u­fac­tur­ers must in­dic­ate its name, re­gistered trade name or re­gistered trade­mark and the postal ad­dress at which it may be con­tac­ted on every ap­par­at­us. If this is im­possible, this in­form­a­tion must be provided on the pack­aging or in a doc­u­ment ac­com­pa­ny­ing the ap­par­at­us. The ad­dress must in­dic­ate a single point at which the man­u­fac­turer can be con­tac­ted. The con­tact de­tails must be in a lan­guage eas­ily un­der­stood by end users.

⁵ If the man­u­fac­turer is not based in Switzer­land, every ap­par­at­us must also bear the names, re­gistered trade name or the re­gistered trade­mark of the im­port­er and the postal ad­dress at which it can be con­tac­ted. If this is im­possible, this in­form­a­tion must be provided on the pack­aging for the ap­par­at­us or in an ac­com­pa­ny­ing doc­u­ment. The con­tact de­tails must be in a lan­guage eas­ily un­der­stood by end users.

⁶ If the man­u­fac­turer and its au­thor­ised rep­res­ent­at­ive are not based in Switzer­land and the im­port­er im­ports the ap­par­at­us for its own per­son­al use, each ap­par­at­us must also must in­dic­ate the name, re­gistered trade name or re­gistered trade­mark of the ful­fil­ment ser­vice pro­vider and the postal ad­dress at which it may be con­tac­ted. If this is im­possible, this in­form­a­tion must be provided on the pack­aging or in a doc­u­ment ac­com­pa­ny­ing the ap­par­at­us. The con­tact de­tails must be in a lan­guage eas­ily un­der­stood by end users.¹⁹

¹ Every ap­par­at­us must carry the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

de­tails of spe­cif­ic pre­cau­tions that must be taken when as­sem­bling, in­stalling, main­tain­ing or us­ing the ap­par­at­us, in or­der to en­sure that the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments of this Or­din­ance are met when us­ing the ap­par­at­us;

b.

clear de­tails of re­stric­tions on use if the con­form­ity of the ap­par­at­us with the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments of this Or­din­ance is not guar­an­teed in res­id­en­tial areas.

² The in­form­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ter b must if ap­plic­able be provided on the pack­aging as well.

³ The in­form­a­tion re­quired to en­able ap­par­at­us to be used in ac­cord­ance with its in­ten­ded pur­pose must be in­cluded in the in­struc­tions ac­com­pa­ny­ing the ap­par­at­us.

⁴ The in­form­a­tion must be provided in an un­der­stand­able man­ner in the of­fi­cial lan­guage of the point of sale. In bi­lin­gual places, it must be provided in both of­fi­cial lan­guages.

¹ Ap­par­at­us that is made avail­able on the mar­ket and which may be in­cor­por­ated in fixed in­stall­a­tions is sub­ject to all the reg­u­la­tions ap­plic­able to ap­par­at­us in this Or­din­ance.

² Ap­par­at­us in­ten­ded for in­cor­por­a­tion in­to a fixed in­stall­a­tion but which are oth­er­wise not made avail­able on the mar­ket is ex­empt from Art­icles 4, 8–12, 13 para­graph 1 and 14.

³ In ad­di­tion to the in­form­a­tion men­tioned in Art­icle 13 para­graphs 3–6, the doc­u­ment­a­tion ac­com­pa­ny­ing ap­par­at­us re­ferred to in para­graph 2 must con­tain the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:²⁰

a.

iden­ti­fic­a­tion of the fixed in­stall­a­tion in­to which it is to be in­cor­por­ated and its elec­tro­mag­net­ic com­pat­ib­il­ity char­ac­ter­ist­ics;

b.

the pre­cau­tions to be taken for the in­cor­por­a­tion of the ap­par­at­us in­to the in­stall­a­tion in or­der not to com­prom­ise the con­form­ity of that in­stall­a­tion.

¹ At OF­COM’s re­quest, eco­nom­ic op­er­at­ors shall identi­fy:

a.

any eco­nom­ic op­er­at­or which has sup­plied them with ap­par­at­us;

b.

any eco­nom­ic op­er­at­or to which they have sup­plied ap­par­at­us.

² They must be able to pro­duce the in­form­a­tion re­ferred to in para­graph 1 for 10 years from the time of be­ing sup­plied with or sup­ply­ing the ap­par­at­us.

Im­port­ers or dis­trib­ut­ors shall en­sure that, while ap­par­at­us is un­der their re­spons­ib­il­ity, its stor­age or trans­port con­di­tions do not jeop­ard­ise its com­pli­ance with the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments of this Or­din­ance.

¹ Man­u­fac­tur­ers and im­port­ers that con­sider or have reas­on to be­lieve that ap­par­at­us that they have placed on the mar­ket does not com­ply with this Or­din­ance must im­me­di­ately take the re­quired cor­rect­ive meas­ures to bring the ap­par­at­us in­to con­form­ity of, or, if re­quired, to with­draw or re­call the same.

² Dis­trib­ut­ors that con­sider or have reas­on to be­lieve that ap­par­at­us that they have made avail­able on the mar­ket does not com­ply with this Or­din­ance must en­sure that the re­quired cor­rect­ive meas­ures are im­me­di­ately taken to bring the ap­par­at­us in­to con­form­ity, or, if re­quired, to with­draw or re­call the same.

³ Where the ap­par­at­us presents a risk, the man­u­fac­tur­ers, au­thor­ised rep­res­ent­at­ives, im­port­ers and dis­trib­ut­ors must also im­me­di­ately no­ti­fy OF­COM to that ef­fect, giv­ing de­tails, in par­tic­u­lar, of the non-com­pli­ance and of any cor­rect­ive meas­ures taken.²¹

⁴ Where the ap­par­at­us presents a risk, the ful­fil­ment ser­vice pro­viders must also im­me­di­ately no­ti­fy OF­COM to that ef­fect, giv­ing de­tails, in par­tic­u­lar, of the non-com­pli­ance and of any cor­rect­ive meas­ures taken, un­less the man­u­fac­turer or its au­thor­ised rep­res­ent­at­ive is based in Switzer­land and the im­port­er has im­por­ted the ap­par­at­us for its own per­son­al use.²²

¹ In re­sponse to a jus­ti­fied re­quest from OF­COM, eco­nom­ic op­er­at­ors must send it all the in­form­a­tion and doc­u­ments re­quired to demon­strate the con­form­ity of the ap­par­at­us with this Or­din­ance.

² The in­form­a­tion and doc­u­ments must be provided in pa­per or elec­tron­ic form in a lan­guage that OF­COM can eas­ily un­der­stand.

³ At OF­COM’s re­quest, eco­nom­ic op­er­at­ors and in­form­a­tion so­ci­ety ser­vice pro­viders shall co­oper­ate on any meas­ures taken to elim­in­ate the risks posed by ap­par­at­us which they have placed on the mar­ket. This ob­lig­a­tion also ap­plies to the au­thor­ised rep­res­ent­at­ive for the ap­par­at­us covered by its man­date.²³

¹ Fixed in­stall­a­tions must be in­stalled ac­cord­ing to the re­cog­nised en­gin­eer­ing prac­tices and re­spect­ing the in­form­a­tion on the in­ten­ded use of their com­pon­ents with a view to meet­ing the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments of this Or­din­ance.

² The re­cog­nised en­gin­eer­ing prac­tices must be doc­u­mented by the per­son who as­sembled the in­stall­a­tion. This doc­u­ment­a­tion shall be giv­en to the own­er of the fixed in­stall­a­tion.

³ The own­er must re­tain the doc­u­ment­a­tion for as long as the in­stall­a­tion is in op­er­a­tion. It shall make it avail­able to OF­COM on re­quest.

¹ Equip­ment that has been put in­to ser­vice must com­ply with this Or­din­ance. It must be prop­erly in­stalled and main­tained and used for its in­ten­ded pur­pose.

² When put­ting equip­ment in­to ser­vice or us­ing the same, the man­u­fac­turer’s in­struc­tions must be fol­lowed.

³ If a ser­vice pro­vider puts equip­ment in­to ser­vice, it must com­ply with the re­cog­nised en­gin­eer­ing prac­tices.

⁴ When equip­ment is re­paired, the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments must be met.

¹ Any per­son who ex­hib­its or demon­strates equip­ment which does not meet the re­quire­ments for be­ing made avail­able on the mar­ket or be­ing put in­to ser­vice must clearly in­dic­ate that the equip­ment in ques­tion does not com­ply with the reg­u­la­tions and may not be made avail­able on the mar­ket or put in­to ser­vice.

² Demon­stra­tions may be car­ried out only if ap­pro­pri­ate meas­ures have been taken to pre­vent elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance.

¹ Second-hand equip­ment may be made avail­able on the mar­ket only if it meets the re­quire­ments in force at the time it was first made avail­able on the mar­ket.

² Second-hand equip­ment in which im­port­ant com­pon­ents have been mod­i­fied for its op­er­a­tion are sub­ject to the same pro­vi­sions as new equip­ment.

¹ OF­COM shall in­spect wheth­er equip­ment that is made avail­able on the mar­ket, put in­to ser­vice, in­stalled or used com­plies with this Or­din­ance.

² For this pur­pose, it shall carry out sample tests. It shall also con­duct an in­spec­tion if it has reas­on to be­lieve that equip­ment does not com­ply with this Or­din­ance.

³ In or­der to con­firm com­pli­ance with this Or­din­ance, OF­COM shall have ac­cess free of charge to the places where the equip­ment is loc­ated. It may re­quire that ap­par­at­us be handed over free of charge.

⁴ It may re­quest the Fed­er­al Of­fice for Cus­toms and Bor­der Se­cur­ity (FO­CBS)²⁴ to provide in­form­a­tion on im­ports of ap­par­at­us for a spe­cif­ic peri­od.

⁵ If the FO­CBS en­coun­ters ap­par­at­us in the course of its nor­mal activ­it­ies that it sus­pects, on the basis of a check­list from OF­COM, does not com­ply with this Or­din­ance, it shall ob­tain a sample and send it im­me­di­ately to OF­COM.

¹ OF­COM is au­thor­ised to re­quest from the eco­nom­ic op­er­at­ors, the ser­vice pro­vider re­spons­ible for the put­ting equip­ment in­to ser­vice or from the own­er of a fixed in­stall­a­tion the doc­u­ment­a­tion and in­form­a­tion that it re­quires to ful­fil its in­spec­tion ob­lig­a­tion. It shall al­low an ap­pro­pri­ate peri­od for the doc­u­ment­a­tion and in­form­a­tion to be provided.

² With re­gard to the in­spec­tions, op­er­at­ors and users must dis­close the fol­low­ing:

a.

the doc­u­ment­a­tion in their pos­ses­sion re­lat­ing to the equip­ment; and

b.

in­form­a­tion to identi­fy the per­son re­spons­ible for mak­ing the equip­ment avail­able on the mar­ket, the own­er, or the op­er­at­or.

³ If there is reas­on to as­sume that a fixed in­stall­a­tion does not com­ply with the reg­u­la­tions in force, and in par­tic­u­lar in cases of dis­turb­ance, OF­COM may re­quest the own­er to demon­strate that the in­stall­a­tion meets the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments of this Or­din­ance.

¹ OF­COM shall ar­range for a body that meets one of the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 7 para­graph 1 let­ters a–c oar to test equip­ment if:²⁵

a.

the tests car­ried out by OF­COM sug­gest that the equip­ment does not meet the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments; and

b.

the re­quest is made by the per­son re­spons­ible for mak­ing the ap­par­at­us avail­able on the mar­ket or the own­er of a fixed in­stall­a­tion.

² Be­fore it ar­ranges for an ap­par­at­us to be tested, it shall con­sult the per­son re­spons­ible for mak­ing it avail­able on the mar­ket. Be­fore it ar­ranges for a fixed in­stall­a­tion to be tested, it shall con­sult the own­er there­of.

³ The costs of the tests by the body shall be paid by the per­son re­spons­ible for mak­ing the ap­par­at­us avail­able on the mar­ket or the own­er of the fixed in­stall­a­tion if the tests show that the fixed in­stall­a­tion does not meet the re­quire­ments.

⁴ OF­COM may ar­range for the tests to be car­ried out by a body if it is un­able to carry out the test it­self. In this case, the per­son re­spons­ible for mak­ing an ap­par­at­us avail­able on the mar­ket that does not meet the es­sen­tial re­quire­ments, or the own­er of the fixed in­stall­a­tion that does not meet these re­quire­ments shall be charged the same costs as would have ap­plied if OF­COM had car­ried out the test it­self. Para­graphs 2 and 3 do not ap­ply.

¹ If the in­spec­tion shows that reg­u­la­tions in this Or­din­ance are be­ing vi­ol­ated, after hear­ing the per­son re­spons­ible for pla­cing the ap­par­at­us on the mar­ket, the user or the own­er of the equip­ment, OF­COM shall or­der ap­pro­pri­ate meas­ures.

² If it be­comes ap­par­ent that equip­ment causes or is sus­cept­ible to dis­turb­ance, OF­COM may in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

pro­hib­it it from con­tinu­ing to be made avail­able on the mar­ket;

b.

or­der its re­call, con­fis­ca­tion or for­feit­ure;

c.

pro­hib­it or re­strict its fur­ther use; or

d.

or­der the equip­ment to be ad­ap­ted.

³ It may pub­lish in­form­a­tion on these meas­ures or make such in­form­a­tion avail­able on the in­ter­net.

⁴ OF­COM may in­form the pub­lic of the tech­nic­al non-con­form­ity of an ap­par­at­us, in par­tic­u­lar if it is not pos­sible to identi­fy all the eco­nom­ic op­er­at­ors or if such per­sons are too nu­mer­ous. To this end, it shall pub­lish the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion in par­tic­u­lar on the in­ter­net or in an­oth­er form:

a.

the meas­ures taken;

b.

the in­ten­ded use of the ap­par­at­us;

c.

the in­form­a­tion that al­low it to be iden­ti­fied, such as the man­u­fac­turer, brand and type;

d.

pho­to­graphs of the ap­par­at­us and its pack­aging;

e.

the date of the de­cision on non-con­form­ity.

⁵ It may par­ti­cip­ate in in­ter­na­tion­al data­bases for the ex­change of in­form­a­tion between mar­ket su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies and re­cord therein the in­form­a­tion re­ferred to in para­graph 4.²⁶

¹ If re­ques­ted to do so, OF­COM shall at­tempt to as­cer­tain the cause of dis­turb­ance.

² To as­cer­tain the cause of dis­turb­ance, OF­COM shall have ac­cess to all equip­ment free of charge.

³ OF­COM de­cides on the meas­ures to be taken to rem­edy the dis­turb­ance, and if ap­plic­able on the al­loc­a­tion of the costs of such meas­ures.

¹ OF­COM shall charge fees for:

a.

the rul­ings that it is­sues in ful­fil­ment of its in­spec­tion ob­lig­a­tion if it is found that pro­vi­sions this Or­din­ance have not been com­plied with;

b.

the costs in­curred in as­cer­tain­ing the cause of dis­turb­ance, which shall be paid by the op­er­at­or of equip­ment caus­ing or li­able to dis­turb­ance if the dis­turb­ance is caused by the fact that the equip­ment:

1.

does not cor­res­pond to the state of the art,

2.

was not put in­to ser­vice in ac­cord­ance with the man­u­fac­turer’s in­struc­tions or the re­cog­nised en­gin­eer­ing prac­tices; or

3.

has been used in con­tra­ven­tion of the re­stric­tions on use (Art. 14 para. 1 let. b).

² The fees are cal­cu­lated on the basis of the time ex­pen­ded. The hourly rate amounts to 210 Swiss francs.

³ The fee charged for as­cer­tain­ing the cause of dis­turb­ance is at least 175 francs. No charge is made for trav­el­ling time.

⁴ In ad­di­tion, the Gen­er­al Fees Or­din­ance of 8 Septem­ber 2004²⁷ ap­plies.

¹ The Or­din­ance of 18 Novem­ber 2009²⁸ on Elec­tro­mag­net­ic Com­pat­ib­il­ity is re­pealed.

² and ³ ...²⁹

This Or­din­ance comes in­to force on 20 April 2016.