Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ With­in 30 days of re­ceipt of the re­port in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 93 para­graph 3, a com­plaint may be sub­mit­ted in writ­ing with the Com­plaints Au­thor­ity. The om­buds­man ser­vice’s re­port must be at­tached.

² DE­TEC sub­mits its com­plaint dir­ectly to the Com­plaints Au­thor­ity with­in 30 days of the trans­mis­sion of the pro­gramme con­cerned.

³ In the com­plaint, a brief state­ment of grounds must be provided ex­plain­ing:

a.

how the ed­it­or­i­al pub­lic­a­tion which is the sub­ject of the com­plaint has vi­ol­ated pro­vi­sions con­cern­ing con­tent in Art­icles 4, 5 and 5a of this Act or of in­ter­na­tion­al law bind­ing on Swiss broad­casters; or

b.

why the re­fus­al to grant ac­cess is un­law­ful.¹⁰²