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Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 26 April 2017 (Status as of 1 January 2021)

Art. 169 Discharge of NORM to the environment

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.