Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ Sur­pluses from the share of fees for broad­casters of loc­al or re­gion­al pro­gramme ser­vices (Art. 38) that ex­ist when this pro­vi­sion comes in­to force shall be used for the be­ne­fit of fee-shar­ing broad­casters as fol­lows:

a.

one quarter for the ba­sic and con­tinu­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing of their em­ploy­ees;

b.

three quar­ters for pro­mot­ing new broad­cast­ing tech­no­lo­gies in terms of Art­icle 58 and di­git­al tele­vi­sion pro­duc­tion tech­niques.

² Up to 10 per cent of the sur­pluses may be used to provide gen­er­al in­form­a­tion to the pub­lic in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 58 para­graph 2.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the ex­tent of the amount to be used to fund the tasks in ac­cord­ance with para­graphs 1 and 2. In do­ing so, it shall take ac­count of the por­tion to be re­tained as the li­quid­ity re­serve.

⁴ OF­COM shall grant in­di­vidu­al con­tri­bu­tions in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 on ap­plic­a­tion. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the con­di­tions and cal­cu­la­tion cri­ter­ia by which OF­COM pays the con­tri­bu­tions.