Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ Ad­vert­ising must as a prin­ciple be in­ser­ted between in­di­vidu­al pro­grammes and must be broad­cast in blocks. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­term­ines when de­vi­ations from this prin­ciple are pos­sible. De­vi­ations may not pre­ju­dice the in­teg­rity and the value of the pro­gramme con­cerned.

² Ad­vert­ising may not in prin­ciple oc­cupy more than 20 per cent of one hour’s trans­mis­sion time. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the ex­cep­tions.²⁶

³ When de­term­in­ing de­vi­ations from the prin­ciples in para­graphs 1 and 2, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall not­ably take in­to ac­count the fol­low­ing cri­ter­ia:

a.

broad­casters’ per­form­ance man­dates;

b.

the eco­nom­ic situ­ation of ra­dio and tele­vi­sion;

c.

trans­fron­ti­er com­pet­i­tion;

d.

in­ter­na­tion­al reg­u­la­tions on ad­vert­ising;

e.

the con­cerns of the audi­ence.