Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ Broad­casters of Swiss pro­gramme ser­vices must re­cord all pro­grammes and keep the re­cord­ings and the rel­ev­ant ma­ter­i­al and doc­u­ment­a­tion for at least four months. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may ex­empt cer­tain cat­egor­ies of broad­casters from this ob­lig­a­tion.

² Con­tri­bu­tions as part of the oth­er journ­al­ist­ic ser­vices from SRG SSR must also be re­cor­ded and re­tained with the rel­ev­ant ma­ter­i­al and doc­u­ment­a­tion. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the dur­a­tion and ex­tent of the re­cord­ing and re­ten­tion ob­lig­a­tion, tak­ing ac­count of tech­nic­al feas­ib­il­ity and what can reas­on­ably be ex­pec­ted of SRG SSR.

³ If a com­plaint is sub­mit­ted to the Om­buds­man Ser­vice with­in the re­ten­tion peri­od or an ob­jec­tion is raised with the In­de­pend­ent Com­plaints Au­thor­ity for Ra­dio and Tele­vi­sion or an of­fi­cial su­per­vis­ory pro­ced­ure is opened, the re­cord­ings, ma­ter­i­als and doc­u­ment­a­tion must be re­tained un­til the com­ple­tion of the pro­ceed­ings.