Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ Without pre­ju­dice to para­graph 2, the Fed­er­al Of­fice of Pub­lic Health (FOPH) is the li­cens­ing au­thor­ity for all activ­it­ies and ra­di­ation sources sub­ject to man­dat­ory li­cens­ing un­der this Or­din­ance.

² The Swiss Fed­er­al Nuc­le­ar Safety In­spect­or­ate (EN­SI) is the li­cens­ing au­thor­ity for:

a.

activ­it­ies at nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions which are not sub­ject to man­dat­ory li­cens­ing or a de­com­mis­sion­ing or­der un­der the NEA¹⁸;

b.

ex­per­i­ments in­volving ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances in con­nec­tion with geo­lo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions as spe­cified in Art­icle 35 of the NEA;

c.

the im­port and ex­port of ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances for or from nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions;

d.

the trans­port of ra­dio­act­ive sub­stances from and to nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions;

e.

the dis­charge of ra­dio­act­ive waste from nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions to the en­vir­on­ment;

f.¹⁹

the de­cay stor­age of ra­dio­act­ive waste from nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions and all re­lated activ­it­ies.