Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ The fol­low­ing per­sons are ex­emp­ted from the ob­lig­a­tion to pay the fee:

a.

on ap­plic­a­tion, per­sons who re­ceive an­nu­al be­ne­fits un­der Art­icle 3 para­graph 1 let­ter a of the Fed­er­al Act of 6 Oc­to­ber 2006⁶⁰ on Be­ne­fits sup­ple­ment­ary to the Old Age, Sur­viv­ors' and In­valid­ity In­sur­ance; the ex­emp­tion ap­plies ret­ro­spect­ively from the date on which sup­ple­ment­ary be­ne­fits were first claimed, but at the earli­est from a date five years pri­or to re­ceipt of the ap­plic­a­tion by the col­lec­tion agency;

b.

per­sons en­titled to priv­ileges, im­munit­ies and fa­cil­it­ies un­der Art­icle 2 para­graph 2 of the Host State Act of 22 June 2007⁶¹ (HSA) and who en­joy dip­lo­mat­ic status, provided they do not hold Swiss cit­izen­ship; the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the ex­emp­tion of oth­er per­sons en­joy­ing priv­ileges, im­munit­ies and fa­cil­it­ies and the mem­bers of staff of in­sti­tu­tion­al be­ne­fi­ciar­ies un­der Art­icle 2 para­graph 1 let­ters d, e and f HSA, provided they do not hold Swiss cit­izen­ship.

² Where one mem­ber of a private house­hold meets the re­quire­ments for an ex­emp­tion un­der para­graph 1, all mem­bers of the house­hold con­cerned are ex­emp­ted from the ob­lig­a­tion to pay.