Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ Ra­dio­act­ive ma­ter­i­al may only be im­por­ted, ex­por­ted or un­der­go trans­it via the cus­toms of­fices des­ig­nated by the Dir­ect­or­ate Gen­er­al of Cus­toms.

² The cus­toms de­clar­a­tion for im­port, ex­port, or trans­it must in­clude the fol­low­ing de­tails:

a.

the pre­cise des­ig­na­tion of the goods;

b.

the ra­di­o­nuc­lides (in the case of nuc­lide mix­tures the three nuc­lides with the low­est li­cens­ing lim­its must be in­dic­ated);

c.

the total activ­ity per ra­di­o­nuc­lide in Bq³⁶;

d.

the li­cence num­ber of the re­cip­i­ent (for im­ports) or the sender (for ex­ports) in Switzer­land.

³ For each in­di­vidu­al stor­age of ra­dio­act­ive ma­ter­i­al in a cus­toms bon­ded ware­house or in a duty-free ware­house, the de­pos­it­or must present to the cus­toms of­fice a li­cence as spe­cified in Art­icle 28 of the RPA.

⁴ The li­cens­ing au­thor­ity may re­quest that a sep­ar­ate li­cence ap­plic­a­tion be sub­mit­ted for each im­port, ex­port and trans­it of high-activ­ity sealed sources.