Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

1 In cases where the haz­ard po­ten­tial for people and the en­vir­on­ment is low, the FOPH may as­sess activ­it­ies sub­ject to man­dat­ory li­cens­ing us­ing a sim­pli­fied pro­ced­ure. This con­cerns in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

med­ic­al ap­plic­a­tions in the low-dose range (Art. 26 let. a);

b.

the op­er­a­tion of in­stall­a­tions with full or par­tial pro­tec­tion sys­tems.

2 In the sim­pli­fied pro­ced­ure, it shall re­view the ap­plic­a­tion doc­u­ments sub­mit­ted solely for com­plete­ness and form.