Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ The su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity may im­pose a pen­alty not ex­ceed­ing 10 per cent of its av­er­age turnover achieved in Switzer­land in the pre­vi­ous three busi­ness years on any per­son who:

a.

vi­ol­ates a leg­ally-bind­ing de­cision of the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity or a leg­ally-bind­ing de­cision of the ap­peals au­thor­ity;

b.

ser­i­ously in­fringes con­di­tions of the li­cence;

c.

vi­ol­ates reg­u­la­tions con­cern­ing ad­vert­ising and spon­sor­ship which are con­tained in this Act (Art. 4, 5 and 9-14), its im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions, the li­cence or the rel­ev­ant in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments;

d.

vi­ol­ates the reg­u­la­tions con­cern­ing the trans­mis­sion ob­lig­a­tion (Art. 55);

e.

fails to com­ply with the ob­lig­a­tion to guar­an­tee the right of short re­port­ing of pub­lic events (Art. 72);

f.

fails to guar­an­tee free ac­cess to events of ma­jor im­port­ance to so­ci­ety (Art. 73);

g.

vi­ol­ates meas­ures as defined in Art­icle 75 (me­dia con­cen­tra­tion);

h.⁹⁸

...

² Any per­son who fails to com­ply with, or be­lated or in­com­pletely com­plies with one of the fol­low­ing ob­lig­a­tions or who provides false in­form­a­tion may be re­quired to pay an amount not ex­ceed­ing CHF 10 000:

a.

ob­lig­a­tion to no­ti­fy (Art. 3);

b.

pub­lic­a­tion ob­lig­a­tions (Art. 8);

c.

ob­lig­a­tion to no­ti­fy rev­en­ue from ad­vert­ising and spon­sor­ship (Art. 15);

d.

ob­lig­a­tion to no­ti­fy hold­ings (Art. 16);

e.

ob­lig­a­tion to provide in­form­a­tion (Art. 17);

f.

re­port­ing ob­lig­a­tion (Art. 18);

g.

ob­lig­a­tion to sub­mit stat­ist­ic­al in­form­a­tion (Art. 19);

h.

ob­lig­a­tion to re­cord and re­tain pro­grammes (Art. 20) or to per­man­ently con­serve pro­grammes (Art. 21);

i.

ob­lig­a­tions of the SRG SSR (Art. 29);

j.

ob­lig­a­tions for broad­casters with a fee-shar­ing li­cence (Art. 41);

k.

ob­lig­a­tion to no­ti­fy trans­fer of the li­cence (Art. 48);

l.

ob­lig­a­tion to com­ply with the li­cence area des­ig­nated by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil when broad­cast­ing or ar­ran­ging the broad­cast­ing of pro­gramme ser­vices (Art. 52 para. 3);

m.

broad­cast­ing of pre­scribed pro­gramme ser­vices on pre­ferred chan­nels (Art. 62);

n.

ob­lig­a­tion to provide in­form­a­tion and to sub­mit doc­u­ment­a­tion (Art. 63 para. 3).

³ When as­sess­ing the pen­alty, the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity shall take par­tic­u­lar ac­count of the ser­i­ous­ness of the in­fringe­ment and the fin­an­cial cir­cum­stances of the pen­al­ised leg­al or nat­ur­al per­son.