Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ The col­lec­tion agency shall ob­tain the data on house­holds and their mem­bers re­quired for col­lect­ing the fee from the fol­low­ing re­gisters:

a.

the re­gister of res­id­ents (Art. 2 para. 2 let. a RHA⁶⁵);

b.

the Or­dipro in­form­a­tion sys­tem of the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of For­eign Af­fairs (Art. 2 para. 1 let. c RHA).

² It shall ob­tain the data via the Fed­er­al In­form­a­tion and Com­mu­nic­a­tion Plat­form in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 10 para­graph 3 RHA.

³ Can­tons and com­munes shall provide the col­lec­tion agency with the data from their re­gisters of res­id­ents in the re­quired format and with the re­quired reg­u­lar­ity for de­liv­ery via the Fed­er­al In­form­a­tion and Com­mu­nic­a­tion Plat­form in en­cryp­ted form.

⁴ The col­lec­tion agency shall pay con­tri­bu­tions from the fee rev­en­ue to com­munes and can­tons to­wards the in­vest­ments spe­cific­ally re­quired in or­der to trans­mit data to the col­lec­tion agency.

⁵ The col­lec­tion agency may sys­tem­at­ic­ally use the OASI num­ber⁶⁶ in terms of Art­icle 50c of the Fed­er­al Act of 20 Decem­ber 1946⁶⁷ on Old-Age and Sur­viv­ors’ In­sur­ance (OASIA):

a.

to ful­fil its tasks in con­nec­tion with col­lect­ing the fee;

b.

in the case of quer­ies to com­munes and can­tons re­lated to trans­mit­ted data.

⁶ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the data that the col­lec­tion agency may ob­tain in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1. It shall reg­u­late the de­tails with re­gard to volume and format of the data, the reg­u­lar­ity of data de­liv­er­ies and the con­tri­bu­tions to can­tons and com­munes in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 4.