Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

1 NORM with a spe­cif­ic activ­ity above the rel­ev­ant NORM clear­ance lim­it may, with the ap­prov­al of the li­cens­ing au­thor­ity, be dis­charged to the en­vir­on­ment if:

a.

dis­pos­al via the usu­al chan­nels would be im­possible or would in­volve dis­pro­por­tion­ate ef­fort; and

b.

as a res­ult of ap­pro­pri­ate meas­ures, the ef­fect­ive dose to mem­bers of the pub­lic arising from the dis­charge re­mains be­low 0.3 mSv per cal­en­dar year.

2 The FOPH shall mon­it­or com­pli­ance with the per­miss­ible ef­fect­ive dose via the sampling and meas­ure­ment pro­gramme spe­cified in Art­icle 193.

3 NORM may only be ex­por­ted for dis­charge to the en­vir­on­ment if con­sent has been gran­ted by the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity of the re­cip­i­ent coun­try and the re­quire­ments spe­cified in para­graph 1 are com­plied with.