Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ If there is a pub­lic in­terest in a de­cision, the Com­plaints Au­thor­ity shall also con­sider com­plaints which have been sub­mit­ted with­in the time lim­it but which do not meet all the form­al re­quire­ments. In this case the party lodging the com­plaint does not have party rights.

² Un­less the com­plaint is clearly in­ad­miss­ible or without mer­it, the Com­plaints Au­thor­ity in­vites the broad­caster to com­ment.

³ The Com­plaints Au­thor­ity may re­fuse or sus­pend the con­sid­er­a­tion of a com­plaint if ju­di­cial rem­ed­ies in civil or crim­in­al law are pending or have not been used or if an ad­min­is­trat­ive pro­ced­ure is be­ing con­duc­ted in the same mat­ter.