Nuclear Energy Act
(NEA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall spe­cify the pro­vi­sions gov­ern­ing the en­force­ment of this Act.

² It may as­sign the spe­cific­a­tion of reg­u­la­tions to the De­part­ment or sub­or­din­ate au­thor­it­ies, tak­ing due ac­count of the im­port­ance there­of.

³ The au­thor­ity des­ig­nated by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall main­tain a cent­ral­ised ser­vice that pro­cures, pro­cesses and passes on data in­so­far as this is ne­ces­sary for the en­force­ment of this Act, the RPA⁷⁴, the pre­ven­tion of il­leg­al activ­it­ies and the pro­sec­u­tion of of­fend­ers.⁷⁵

⁴ The li­cens­ing and su­per­vis­ory au­thor­it­ies shall main­tain of­fi­cial secrecy and take all pre­cau­tion­ary meas­ures to pre­vent eco­nom­ic es­pi­on­age.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may call on the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies to as­sist with the en­force­ment of this Act.

⁶ With­in the scope of its own com­pet­en­cies, the en­force­ment au­thor­ity may call on third parties to as­sist with the en­force­ment of this Act, in par­tic­u­lar for car­ry­ing out ex­am­in­a­tions and in­spec­tions.