Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the date from which the new ra­dio and tele­vi­sion fee will be charged.

² Un­til that date, the re­cep­tion fee for private and com­mer­cial re­cep­tion will be charged in ac­cord­ance with the pre­vi­ous law (Art. 68–70 and Art. 101 para. 1 of the Fed­er­al Act of 24 March 2006¹²⁸ on Ra­dio and Tele­vi­sion).

³ The use of the rev­en­ue from the re­cep­tion fee is gov­erned by the pro­vi­sions of the new law on the ra­dio and tele­vi­sion fee.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the trans­ition to the new fee sys­tem. It may in par­tic­u­lar provide that funds avail­able from the re­cep­tion fee are trans­ferred to the new sys­tem, and de­cide which au­thor­it­ies con­tin­ue on­go­ing first in­stance pro­ceed­ings.

⁵ It may de­cide on an as­sess­ment peri­od for the first peri­od of the cor­por­ate fee that dif­fers from that in Art­icle 70 para­graph 1.