Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ The Com­plaints Au­thor­ity shall des­ig­nate an in­de­pend­ent om­buds­man ser­vice for each re­gion of the three of­fi­cial lan­guages; the om­buds­man ser­vice is at­tached to the Com­plaints Com­mis­sion for ad­min­is­trat­ive pur­poses.

² The SRG SSR shall provide its own in­de­pend­ent om­buds­man ser­vices.

³ The om­buds­man ser­vice deals with re­ports about:

a.

ed­it­or­i­al pro­grammes that have been broad­cast, where the re­port relates to vi­ol­a­tions of Art­icles 4 and 5 of this Act or of in­ter­na­tion­al law bind­ing on Swiss broad­casters;

a^bis.¹⁰⁰

pub­lished con­tri­bu­tions pro­duced by the ed­it­or­i­al staff as part of the oth­er journ­al­ist­ic ser­vices from SRG SSR where the re­port relates to an in­fringe­ment of Art­icle 5a;

b.¹⁰¹

re­fus­al to grant ac­cess to the pro­gramme ser­vices of Swiss broad­casters or to the part of the oth­er journ­al­ist­ic ser­vices from SRG SSR pro­duced by the ed­it­or­i­al staff.

⁴ The re­gion­al-lan­guage om­buds­man ser­vices are sub­ject to the su­per­vi­sion of the Com­plaints Au­thor­ity.