Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

In so far as is ne­ces­sary to safe­guard di­versity of opin­ion, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may, after con­sulta­tion with the parties con­cerned, stip­u­late open in­ter­faces or de­cree oth­er pro­vi­sions con­cern­ing their tech­nic­al con­fig­ur­a­tion for equip­ment or ser­vices which are used for pro­cessing of pro­gramme ser­vices. In so do­ing, it takes ac­count of the equip­ment or ser­vices already on the mar­ket and al­lows ap­pro­pri­ate trans­ition­al peri­ods.