Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹Li­cences gran­ted pri­or to the com­mence­ment of this Or­din­ance shall re­main val­id un­til their re­new­al or ex­piry. The du­ties arising from a li­cence are based on the pro­vi­sions of this Or­din­ance.

²Pro­ceed­ings which are pending when this Or­din­ance comes in­to force are sub­ject to the pro­vi­sions of this Or­din­ance.

³The lim­it for the equi­val­ent dose for the lens of the eye spe­cified in Art­icle 56 para­graph 3 let­ter a ap­plies from 1 Janu­ary 2019; be­fore that date, the lim­it spe­cified in cur­rent le­gis­la­tion ap­plies.

⁴ Art­icle 43 (Li­cence hold­ers’ self-eval­u­ation and qual­ity manu­al) must be im­ple­men­ted no later than two years after the com­mence­ment of this Or­din­ance.

⁵Any per­son who, when this Or­din­ance comes in­to force, holds a li­cence for a high‑activ­ity sealed source must:

a.

sub­mit to the li­cens­ing au­thor­ity, no later than two years after the com­mence­ment of this Or­din­ance, the in­form­a­tion spe­cified in Art­icle 97 for the pre­par­a­tion of the in­vent­ory;

b.

in­form the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity, no later than two years after the com­mence­ment of this Or­din­ance, what safety and se­cur­ity meas­ures have been defined in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 99.

⁶Any per­son who, when this Or­din­ance comes in­to force, owns an en­ter­prise where there is an in­creased like­li­hood of orphan ra­dio­act­ive ma­ter­i­als be­ing en­countered must im­ple­ment the meas­ures spe­cified in Art­icle 104 no later than three years after the com­mence­ment of this Or­din­ance and ap­ply for a li­cence for the activ­ity.

⁷Ra­dio­act­ive waste which, when this Or­din­ance comes in­to force, is already in stor­age for de­cay as spe­cified in Art­icle 117 para­graph 2 may, after a new as­sess­ment on the basis of the new clear­ance lim­its, be stored for a max­im­um of an­oth­er 30 years. The as­sess­ment must be presen­ted to the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity no later than two years after the com­mence­ment of this Or­din­ance.

⁸The can­tons shall modi­fy the build­ing per­mis­sion pro­ced­ure with­in two years after the com­mence­ment of this Or­din­ance in such a way that it meets the re­quire­ments spe­cified in Art­icle 163 para­graph 1.

⁹Art­icle 171 (Long-term con­tam­in­a­tion fol­low­ing an emer­gency) does not ap­ply un­til three years after the com­mence­ment of this Or­din­ance.