Radiological Protection Act
(RPA)

¹ In cases where the re­lease of dan­ger­ous amounts of ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances in­to the en­vir­on­ment can­not be ruled out, the en­ter­prises con­cerned shall be re­quired, as part of the li­cens­ing pro­ced­ure:

a.

to es­tab­lish, at their own ex­pense, an alarm sys­tem for the pop­u­la­tion at risk or to con­trib­ute pro­por­tion­ally to the costs of a gen­er­al alarm sys­tem;

b.

to par­ti­cip­ate in the pre­par­a­tion and im­ple­ment­a­tion of emer­gency pro­tec­tion meas­ures.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall define the re­spons­ib­il­it­ies of the com­pet­ent fed­er­al, can­ton­al and com­mun­al agen­cies.