Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ SRG SSR and the broad­casters with a li­cence un­der Art­icle 38 para­graph 1 let­ter a or Art­icle 43 para­graph 1 let­ter a must:¹⁷

a.

in­sert in their pro­gramme ser­vices without delay ur­gent po­lice mes­sages which are in­dis­pens­able to the main­ten­ance of pub­lic or­der and safety or the safety of per­sons, as well as of­fi­cial alerts and in­struc­tions;

b.¹⁸

in­form the pub­lic of de­cisions of the Con­fed­er­a­tion which are pub­lished ur­gently un­der Art­icle 7 para­graph 3 of the Pub­lic­a­tions Act of 18 June 2004¹⁹ (PublA) or by means of ex­traordin­ary pub­lic­a­tion un­der Art­icle 7 para­graph 4 PublA.

² The au­thor­ity re­quir­ing the broad­casts in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 is re­spons­ible for them.

³ When ne­ces­sary, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall ex­tend the ob­lig­a­tions in para­graph 1 let­ter a to tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vice pro­viders which broad­cast pro­gramme ser­vices.

⁴ It shall en­sure that the pop­u­la­tion is as­sured of in­form­a­tion by ra­dio in crisis situ­ations. The li­cens­ing au­thor­it­ies reg­u­late the de­tails in the li­cences of the SRG SSR and of the ra­dio broad­casters men­tioned in Art­icles 38-43.