Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ The SRG SSR shall or­gan­ise it­self so that:

a.

its autonomy and in­de­pend­ence from the state and from so­cial, eco­nom­ic and polit­ic­al group­ings is guar­an­teed;

b.

it is man­aged eco­nom­ic­ally and the ra­dio and tele­vi­sion fees are used for the pur­pose for which they were in­ten­ded;

c.

the con­cerns of the lin­guist­ic re­gions are taken in­to con­sid­er­a­tion and na­tion­al lead­er­ship and co­ordin­a­tion is as­sured;

d.

the pub­lic is rep­res­en­ted in the or­gan­isa­tion;

e.

ed­it­or­i­al activ­ity is sep­ar­ate from eco­nom­ic activ­it­ies;

f.

it can be man­aged, su­per­vised and in­spec­ted in ac­cord­ance with the prin­ciples of the law on com­pan­ies lim­ited by shares.

² Its art­icles of as­so­ci­ation must be ap­proved by DE­TEC.