Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil awards the SRG SSR a li­cence.

² A pub­lic con­sulta­tion is held be­fore the award of the li­cence or be­fore changes to the li­cence with con­sequences for me­dia policy.

³ The li­cence de­term­ines in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the num­ber and nature of ra­dio and tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices;

b.

the scope of the fur­ther ed­it­or­i­al pro­gram­ming which is ne­ces­sary to ful­fil the pro­gramme ser­vice man­date at the level of the lin­guist­ic re­gion, as well as at na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al level and which is fin­anced from ra­dio and tele­vi­sion fees;

c.

the de­tails of the in­clu­sion of Swiss lit­er­at­ure, mu­sic and film in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 24 para­graph 4 let­ter b; it may set down cor­res­pond­ing min­im­um quotas.

⁴ The SRG SSR may of­fer cer­tain pro­gramme ser­vices in co­oper­a­tion with oth­er broad­casters. The co­oper­a­tion is reg­u­lated in agree­ments which re­quire the con­sent of the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of the En­vir­on­ment, Trans­port, En­ergy and Com­mu­nic­a­tions (DE­TEC).³⁶

⁵ DE­TEC³⁷ may amend in­di­vidu­al pro­vi­sions of the li­cence be­fore its term ex­pires if the ac­tu­al or leg­al con­di­tions have changed and the amend­ment is ne­ces­sary to safe­guard im­port­ant in­terests. The SRG SSR will be paid ap­pro­pri­ate com­pens­a­tion.

⁶ DE­TEC may re­strict the SRG SSR’s li­cence or par­tially sus­pend it if:

a.

the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity has made an ap­plic­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 89;

b.

the SRG SSR has re­peatedly or ser­i­ously vi­ol­ated its ob­lig­a­tions re­gard­ing fin­an­cial man­age­ment and ac­count­ing (Art. 35 and 36).