Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ A gen­er­al li­cence may be gran­ted if the fol­low­ing con­di­tions are met:

a.

the pro­tec­tion of hu­mans and the en­vir­on­ment can be en­sured;

b.

the grant­ing of the li­cence does not con­flict with any oth­er pro­vi­sions of fed­er­al le­gis­la­tion, in par­tic­u­lar le­gis­la­tion gov­ern­ing en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion, pre­ser­va­tion of loc­al nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al her­it­age, and spa­tial plan­ning;

c.

a plan has been sub­mit­ted for de­com­mis­sion­ing, or for the mon­it­or­ing peri­od and the clos­ure of the in­stall­a­tion;

d.

evid­ence has been provided for the dis­pos­al of res­ult­ing ra­dio­act­ive waste;

e.

Switzer­land’s ex­tern­al se­cur­ity is not af­fected;

f.

there are no con­flicts with com­mit­ments un­der in­ter­na­tion­al law;

g.

with re­gard to deep geo­lo­gic­al re­pos­it­or­ies, the res­ults of geo­lo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions con­firm the suit­ab­il­ity of the site.

² The gen­er­al li­cence shall be gran­ted to a com­pany lim­ited by shares, co-op­er­at­ive or pub­lic law en­tity. If the ap­plic­ant is a for­eign com­pany, it must have a branch re­gistered in the com­mer­cial re­gister in Switzer­land. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may re­fuse to grant a gen­er­al li­cence to a com­pany formed in ac­cord­ance with the laws of a for­eign coun­try if the coun­try in which the com­pany con­cerned is dom­i­ciled does not grant re­cip­roc­al rights, in­so­far as the de­cision of the Fed­er­al Coun­cil does not con­flict with any ex­ist­ing in­ter­na­tion­al com­mit­ments.