Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ The FOPH shall main­tain a cent­ral radon data­base. In this data­base, it shall store the data which is re­quired to al­low con­tinu­ous as­sess­ment of the im­ple­ment­a­tion of meas­ure­ments and re­medi­ation pro­jects and to draw stat­ist­ic­al and sci­entif­ic con­clu­sions.

² The fol­low­ing data on in­di­vidu­al build­ings shall be stored in the cent­ral radon data­base:

a.

loc­a­tion (co­ordin­ates, plot num­ber);

b.

Swiss fed­er­al build­ing iden­ti­fi­er (EGID) and dwell­ing iden­ti­fi­er (EWID) in ac­cord­ance with the Or­din­ance of 31 May 2000⁵⁵ on the Fed­er­al Re­gister of Build­ings and Dwell­ings;

c.

in­form­a­tion on the premises;

d.

meas­ure­ment data;

e.

re­medi­ation data;

f.

own­er and user (name, ad­dress, post­code, place);

g.

year of con­struc­tion.

³ The staff of the FOPH Radon Tech­nic­al and In­form­a­tion Centre are en­titled to pro­cess the data in the data­base.

⁴ To ful­fil the re­spons­ib­il­it­ies as­signed to them, the fol­low­ing shall have elec­tron­ic ac­cess to data in the data­base as spe­cified be­low:

a.

the ap­proved radon meas­ure­ment pro­viders: to the data which they have col­lec­ted them­selves;

b.

the can­tons: to all data col­lec­ted on their ter­rit­ory;

c.

Suva: to all data col­lec­ted at work­places.

⁵ The FOPH may, on the basis of a data pro­tec­tion agree­ment, make avail­able to third parties data from the radon data­base for re­search pur­poses sub­ject to the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments and con­di­tions:

a.

The data shall be an­onymised as soon as the pur­pose of pro­cessing per­mits.

b.

The data shall not be trans­ferred.

c.

If the res­ults are pub­lished, this must be done in a com­pletely an­onymised form.