Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the amount of the fee for house­holds and for un­der­tak­ings. The de­cis­ive factors are the need:

a.

to fin­ance SRG SSR pro­gramme ser­vices and oth­er journ­al­ist­ic ser­vices from SRG SSR that are re­quired to ful­fil the pro­gramme ser­vice man­date (Art. 25 para. 3 let. b);

b.

to sup­port pro­gramme ser­vices from fee-shar­ing li­censees (Art. 38–42);

c.

to sup­port the Found­a­tion for Audi­ence Re­search (Art. 81);

d.

to sub­sid­ise the con­struc­tion of trans­mit­ter net­works in or­der to in­tro­duce new broad­cast­ing tech­no­lo­gies (Art. 58);

e.

to fin­ance the pro­cessing of pro­grammes in li­censed re­gion­al tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices for per­sons hard of hear­ing (Art. 7 para. 4);

f.

for the tasks of the col­lec­tion agency, the Fed­er­al Tax Ad­min­is­tra­tion (FTA), OF­COM and the can­tons and com­munes in con­nec­tion with col­lect­ing the fee and en­for­cing the ob­lig­a­tion to pay (Art. 69d–69g and 70–70d);

g.

to fin­ance the main­ten­ance of pro­gramme ser­vices (Art. 21).

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine how the rev­en­ue from the fee is al­loc­ated for the uses in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1. In do­ing so, it may de­term­ine the shares al­loc­ated for the ra­dio pro­gramme ser­vices, tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices and oth­er journ­al­ist­ic ser­vices from SRG SSR sep­ar­ately.

³ In de­cid­ing on the amount of the fee, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall take ac­count of the Price Su­per­visor’s re­com­mend­a­tion. Any di­ver­gence from the re­com­mend­a­tions must be pub­licly jus­ti­fied.