Radiological Protection Act
(RPA)

¹ In the event of danger arising from in­creased ra­dio­activ­ity, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall or­der the meas­ures ne­ces­sary:

a.

to pro­tect the pub­lic;

b.

to se­cure sup­plies throughout the coun­try;

c.

to main­tain es­sen­tial pub­lic ser­vices.

² It shall is­sue the reg­u­la­tions re­quired in the event of danger arising from in­creased ra­dio­activ­ity. In par­tic­u­lar, it shall spe­cify:

a.

the ra­di­ation doses ac­cept­able in ex­cep­tion­al situ­ations;

b.

the duty of per­sons and un­der­tak­ings to as­sume re­spons­ib­il­ity, with­in the scope of their usu­al oc­cu­pa­tion­al and en­tre­pren­eur­i­al activ­it­ies, for cer­tain tasks that are in­dis­pens­able for the pro­tec­tion of the pub­lic; the life and health of the per­sons de­ployed shall be pro­tec­ted;

c.

the equip­ment, train­ing and in­sur­ance cov­er re­quired for per­sons charged with spe­cial tasks.

³ If the Fed­er­al Coun­cil and the emer­gency re­sponse or­gan­iz­a­tion are not in a po­s­i­tion to or­der the ne­ces­sary meas­ures, the can­ton­al gov­ern­ments or, in ur­gent cases, the com­pet­ent can­ton­al agen­cies or, if need be, the com­mun­al au­thor­it­ies shall take the ne­ces­sary meas­ures.