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Radiological Protection Act
(RPA)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 22 March 1991 (Status as of 1 May 2017)

Art. 19 Emergency response organization

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.