Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ The FOPH shall op­er­ate an auto­mat­ic net­work for the gen­er­al mon­it­or­ing of ra­dio­activ­ity in the en­vir­on­ment. This net­work shall also meas­ure im­mis­sion levels in the vi­cin­ity of en­ter­prises which dis­charge ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances to the en­vir­on­ment or could dis­charge lar­ger quant­it­ies there­of.

2 The FOPH, in co­oper­a­tion with the com­pet­ent su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity, shall spe­cify re­quire­ments for the mon­it­or­ing net­work with re­gard to mon­it­or­ing in the vi­cin­ity of en­ter­prises as spe­cified in para­graph 1.

³ En­ter­prises where a sub­stan­tial re­lease of ra­dio­activ­ity can­not be ruled out shall bear the costs of pur­chas­ing and op­er­at­ing those mon­it­or­ing sta­tions with­in the auto­mat­ic net­work which are used to mon­it­or ra­dio­activ­ity in their vi­cin­ity.

⁴The costs of pur­chas­ing equip­ment, ex­clud­ing plan­ning costs, are deemed to be ac­quis­i­tion costs. The costs of site rent­al, as­sur­ance of in­form­a­tion se­cur­ity, main­ten­ance and re­pair, and elec­tri­city are deemed to be op­er­at­ing costs.

⁵The FOPH shall charge the pre­vi­ous year’s costs for run­ning the rel­ev­ant mon­it­or­ing sta­tions an­nu­ally to the in­di­vidu­al en­ter­prises.