Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ The Fed­er­al Of­fice for Civil Pro­tec­tion (FO­CP), to­geth­er with the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies and the can­tons, is re­spons­ible for pre­par­ing the na­tion­al emer­gency re­sponse plan.

² The FOPH, in co­oper­a­tion with the FO­CP, shall pre­pare the ra­di­olo­gic­al pro­tec­tion strategy for the na­tion­al emer­gency re­sponse plan. This must be based on ref­er­ence levels. For nuc­le­ar power plant scen­ari­os, EN­SI shall provide the ne­ces­sary found­a­tions.

³The FO­CP, to­geth­er with the FOPH, is re­spons­ible for pre­par­ing the sampling and meas­ur­ing or­gan­isa­tion spe­cified in Art­icle 4a of the Or­din­ance of 17 Oc­to­ber 2007⁴⁴ on the Na­tion­al Emer­gency Op­er­a­tions Centre (ONEOC).

⁴The FOPH is re­spons­ible for pre­par­ing the meas­ures re­quired for the pro­tec­tion of pub­lic health. This is without pre­ju­dice to pre­par­a­tions for pro­tect­ive meas­ures dur­ing the acute phase as spe­cified in the CCMBO⁴⁵.

⁵ The FOPH is re­spons­ible for the main­ten­ance of know­ledge on the treat­ment of severely ir­ra­di­ated per­sons.

⁶ The FOPH and EN­SI, to­geth­er with the NEOC, shall de­vel­op meth­ods and mod­els for de­term­in­ing ra­di­ation doses.