Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

The fol­low­ing are ex­empt from man­dat­ory li­cens­ing:

a.

the trans­port of ra­dio­act­ive ma­ter­i­al which does not ex­ceed the activ­ity con­cen­tra­tion lim­its for ex­empt ma­ter­i­al or the activ­ity lim­its for ex­empt con­sign­ments spe­cified in:

1.

An­nex A, Sub­sec­tion 2.2.7.2, Tables 2.2.7.2.2.1 and 2.2.7.2.2.2, of the European Agree­ment of 30 Septem­ber 1957⁵ con­cern­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Car­riage of Dan­ger­ous Goods by Road (ADR), and in the Or­din­ance of 29 Novem­ber 2002⁶ on the Car­riage of Dan­ger­ous Goods by Road (SDR), or

2.

the Reg­u­la­tions con­cern­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Car­riage of Dan­ger­ous Goods by Rail (RID) in ac­cord­ance with Ap­pendix C, Sub­sec­tion 2.2.7.2, Tables 2.2.7.2.2.1 and 2.2.7.2.2.2, to the Pro­tocol of 3 June 1999⁷ modi­fy­ing the Con­ven­tion con­cern­ing In­ter­na­tion­al Car­riage by Rail (COTIF) of 9 May 1980, and in the Or­din­ance of 31 Oc­to­ber 2012⁸ on the Car­riage of Dan­ger­ous Goods by Rail and Cable­way (RSD);

b.

the trans­port of ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances as ex­cep­ted pack­ages:

1.

in ac­cord­ance with An­nex A, Sec­tion 3.2.1, Table A (UN num­bers 2908, 2909, 2910, 2911 and 3507) of the ADR, and the SDR,

2.

in ac­cord­ance with Sec­tion 3.2.1, Table A (UN Num­bers 2908, 2909, 2910, 2911 and 3507) of the RID, and the RSD,

3.

in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 16 of the Or­din­ance of 17 Au­gust 2005⁹ on Air Trans­port (LTrV),

4.

in ac­cord­ance with the Or­din­ance of 2 March 2010¹⁰ on the Im­ple­ment­a­tion of the European Agree­ment con­cern­ing the In­ter­na­tion­al Car­riage of Dan­ger­ous Goods by In­land Wa­ter­ways;

c.

the trans­port of ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances by air (UN num­bers 2908, 2909, 2910, 2911, 2912, 2913, 2915, 2916, 2978, 3321, 3322, 3332 and 3507) in ac­cord­ance with An­nex 18 to the Con­ven­tion on In­ter­na­tion­al Civil Avi­ation of 7 Decem­ber 1944¹¹ and the as­so­ci­ated Tech­nic­al In­struc­tions¹²;

d.

the dis­tri­bu­tion, use, stor­age and trans­port, as well as the im­port, ex­port and trans­it, of fin­ished timepieces con­tain­ing ra­dio­act­ive sources, provided that they com­ply with the stand­ards ISO¹³ 3157¹⁴ and ISO 4168¹⁵, and of no more than 1000 timepiece com­pon­ents with ra­dio­act­ive tri­ti­um-based lu­min­ous paint;

e.

the hand­ling of stray ra­di­ation sources, where:

the elec­tron ac­cel­er­a­tion voltage does not ex­ceed 30 kV, and

the am­bi­ent dose rate at a dis­tance of 10 cm from the sur­face does not ex­ceed 1 μSv per hour¹⁶;

f.

the hand­ling of min­er­al and rock col­lec­tions with a spe­cif­ic activ­ity be­low the NORM clear­ance lim­its, or if they con­tain less than 10 g nat­ur­al thori­um or 100 g nat­ur­al urani­um;

g.

the hand­ling of ra­di­ation sources, with the ex­cep­tion of dis­tri­bu­tion, for which a type li­cence has been gran­ted;

h.

activ­it­ies and ra­di­ation sources which are sub­ject to man­dat­ory li­cens­ing or a de­com­mis­sion­ing or­der un­der the Nuc­le­ar En­ergy Act of 21 March 2003¹⁷ (NEA);

i.

the de­ploy­ment of oc­cu­pa­tion­ally ex­posed air­crew by air­craft op­er­at­ors.