Radiological Protection Act
(RPA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall es­tab­lish an emer­gency re­sponse or­gan­iz­a­tion for in­cid­ents that could en­danger the pub­lic as a res­ult of in­creased ra­dio­activ­ity.

² The emer­gency re­sponse or­gan­iz­a­tion shall have, in par­tic­u­lar, the fol­low­ing re­spons­ib­il­it­ies:

a.

in the event of an in­cid­ent, it shall fore­cast the dangers arising for the pub­lic;

b.

it shall mon­it­or the ex­tent and course of in­creased ra­dio­activ­ity and as­sess pos­sible im­pacts on people and the en­vir­on­ment;

c.

where there is an im­min­ent danger, it shall or­der the ne­ces­sary emer­gency meas­ures and su­per­vise their im­ple­ment­a­tion.

³ The de­tails shall be elab­or­ated by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil. It shall en­sure that the emer­gency re­sponse or­gan­iz­a­tion:

a.

in­forms the com­pet­ent fed­er­al and can­ton­al agen­cies of the ex­tent of the danger and re­quests the ne­ces­sary pro­tect­ive meas­ures;

b.

in­forms the pub­lic.