Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ Ac­cess to tech­nic­al pro­cessing must be guar­an­teed to broad­casters on fair, reas­on­able and non-dis­crim­in­at­ory terms. If pro­cessing us­ing the tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vice pro­vider’s equip­ment es­sen­tially cor­res­ponds to the state of the art, the broad­caster is not en­titled to use its own equip­ment for pro­cessing.

² Any per­son provid­ing ser­vices as a high­er-level user in­ter­face which con­trol pro­gramme ser­vice se­lec­tion must use the state of the art to en­sure that ref­er­ence is clearly made in the first stage of use to ac­cess-en­titled pro­gramme ser­vices.

³ Op­er­at­ors and pro­viders of pro­cessing ser­vices or equip­ment must:

a.

provide third parties with a jus­ti­fied in­terest with all in­form­a­tion and dis­close all doc­u­ment­a­tion, the know­ledge of which is ne­ces­sary to en­force the rights in para­graph 1;

b.

provide OF­COM on its re­quest with all in­form­a­tion and sub­mit all doc­u­ment­a­tion which is ne­ces­sary to veri­fy wheth­er the ob­lig­a­tions in the pro­vi­sions on tech­nic­al pro­cessing are be­ing com­plied with.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may ex­tend the pro­vi­sions on tech­nic­al pro­cessing to coupled ser­vices.

⁵ If no reg­u­la­tions ex­ist for spe­cif­ic cir­cum­stances, OF­COM shall in in­di­vidu­al cases take the de­cisions re­quired to safe­guard di­versity of opin­ion and di­versity of pro­gram­ming.