Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

In ad­di­tion to the activ­it­ies spe­cified in Art­icle 28 of the RPA, or by way of cla­ri­fic­a­tion there­of, the fol­low­ing activ­it­ies are sub­ject to man­dat­ory li­cens­ing:

the hand­ling of ma­ter­i­al whose spe­cif­ic activ­ity ex­ceeds the clear­ance lim­it and whose ab­so­lute activ­ity ex­ceeds the li­cens­ing lim­it;

the hand­ling of con­tained gaseous ma­ter­i­al whose ab­so­lute activ­ity ex­ceeds the li­cens­ing lim­it;

the dis­charge to the en­vir­on­ment of ma­ter­i­al whose spe­cif­ic activ­ity ex­ceeds the clear­ance lim­it and whose ab­so­lute activ­ity is great­er than the activ­ity of 1 kg of a ma­ter­i­al whose spe­cif­ic activ­ity is equal to the clear­ance lim­it;

the dis­tri­bu­tion of ma­ter­i­al whose spe­cif­ic activ­ity ex­ceeds the clear­ance lim­it and whose ab­so­lute activ­ity is great­er than the activ­ity of 1 kg of a ma­ter­i­al whose spe­cif­ic activ­ity is equal to the clear­ance lim­it;

e.

the use of ra­di­o­nuc­lides in the hu­man body;

f.

the de­ploy­ment of oc­cu­pa­tion­ally ex­posed per­sons as defined in Art­icle 51 para­graphs 1 and 2 at one’s own or at an­oth­er en­ter­prise in Switzer­land or abroad;

g.

the per­form­ance of qual­ity as­sur­ance meas­ures on in­stall­a­tions, nuc­le­ar medi­cine ima­ging equip­ment and act­i­vi­met­ers, or im­age re­cept­or and dis­play sys­tems used in med­ic­al dia­gnostics;

h.

the fur­ther use of ra­di­olo­gic­al legacies as spe­cified in Art­icle 150 para­graph 2;

i.

activ­it­ies in­volving the hand­ling of NORM, if at least one of the situ­ations spe­cified in Art­icle 168 para­graph 2 let­ters b and c ap­plies;

j.⁴

the de­cay stor­age of ra­dio­act­ive waste from nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions out­side nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tions.