Ordinance
on Electromagnetic Compatibility
(OEMC)

¹ In this Or­din­ance:

a.

equip­mentmeans any ap­par­at­us or fixed in­stall­a­tion;

b.

ap­par­at­usmeans:

1.

any fin­ished ap­pli­ance or com­bin­a­tion of such ap­pli­ances made avail­able on the mar­ket as a single func­tion­al unit that is in­ten­ded for the end-user and which is li­able to gen­er­ate elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance or whose per­form­ance is li­able to be af­fected by such dis­turb­ance,

2.

all com­pon­ents or sub-as­sem­blies in­ten­ded for in­cor­por­a­tion by the end-user in­to such an ap­pli­ance and which are li­able to gen­er­ate elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance, or the per­form­ance of which is li­able to be af­fected by such dis­turb­ance,

3.

a com­bin­a­tion of such ap­pli­ances and, where ap­plic­able, oth­er ap­pli­ances that are mo­bile and in­ten­ded to be op­er­ated in a range of loc­a­tions (mo­bile in­stall­a­tion);

c.

fixed in­stall­a­tion means a par­tic­u­lar com­bin­a­tion of ap­par­at­us and if ap­plic­able oth­er ap­pli­ances that are con­nec­ted or in­stalled to­geth­er and which are in­ten­ded to be used per­man­ently at a pre­defined loc­a­tion;

d.

elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance means any elec­tro­mag­net­ic phe­nomen­on which may de­grade the per­form­ance of equip­ment, such as elec­tro­mag­net­ic noise, an un­wanted sig­nal or a change in the propaga­tion me­di­um it­self;

e.

im­munity means the abil­ity of equip­ment to per­form as in­ten­ded without de­grad­a­tion in the pres­ence of elec­tro­mag­net­ic dis­turb­ance;

f.

of­fer­ing means any con­duct aimed at mak­ing ap­par­at­us avail­able on the mar­ket, wheth­er by ex­hib­i­tion on premises or at events, dis­play in ad­vert­ising bro­chures, cata­logues, elec­tron­ic me­dia or in any oth­er way;

g.

mak­ing avail­able on the mar­ket means any sup­ply of ap­par­at­us for dis­tri­bu­tion, con­sump­tion or use on the Swiss mar­ket, wheth­er in re­turn for pay­ment or free of charge;

h.

pla­cing on the mar­ket means the first time that an ap­par­at­us is made avail­able on the Swiss mar­ket;

i.

put­ting in­to ser­vice means the ini­tial in­stall­a­tion and op­er­a­tion of equip­ment;

j.

in­stall­a­tion means mak­ing equip­ment ready for op­er­a­tion;

k.

man­u­fac­turer means any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity that man­u­fac­tures ap­par­at­us or has ap­par­at­us de­signed or man­u­fac­tured, and mar­kets that ap­par­at­us un­der its name or trade­mark;

l.

au­thor­ised rep­res­ent­at­ive means any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity es­tab­lished in Switzer­land that has re­ceived a writ­ten man­date from a man­u­fac­turer to act on its be­half in re­la­tion to spe­cified tasks;

m.

im­port­er means any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity es­tab­lished in Switzer­land that places ap­par­at­us from abroad on the Swiss mar­ket;

n.

dis­trib­ut­or means any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity in the sup­ply chain, with the ex­cep­tion of the man­u­fac­turer or the im­port­er, that makes an ap­par­at­us avail­able on the mar­ket;

n^bis.⁴

ful­fil­ment ser­vice pro­vider means any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity that, in the course of a busi­ness activ­ity, of­fers any two of the fol­low­ing ser­vices: ware­hous­ing, pack­aging, ad­dress­ing and ship­ping of products, without be­ing the own­er of such products; not in­cluded are postal ser­vices un­der Art­icle 2 let­ter a of the Postal Ser­vices Act of 17 Decem­ber 2010⁵ and any oth­er ser­vices in­volving the move­ment of goods;

o.⁶

eco­nom­ic op­er­at­or means any man­u­fac­turer, au­thor­ised rep­res­ent­at­ive, im­port­er, dis­trib­ut­or, ful­fil­ment ser­vice pro­vider or any oth­er nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity that is sub­ject to ob­lig­a­tions con­nec­ted with man­u­fac­tur­ing, mak­ing avail­able on the mar­ket or in­stalling products;

o^bis.⁷

in­form­a­tion so­ci­ety ser­vice pro­vidermeans any nat­ur­al per­son or leg­al en­tity that of­fers an in­form­a­tion so­ci­ety ser­vice, i.e. any ser­vice nor­mally provided for a con­sid­er­a­tion, at a dis­tance, elec­tron­ic­ally and at the in­di­vidu­al re­quest of a re­cip­i­ent;

p.

con­form­ity mark­ing means a mark­ing by which the man­u­fac­turer in­dic­ates that the ap­par­at­us is in con­form­ity with the ap­plic­able re­quire­ments set out in the Swiss le­gis­la­tion provid­ing for its af­fix­ing.

² The im­port of an ap­par­at­us for the Swiss mar­ket is equi­val­ent to pla­cing on the mar­ket.

³ The of­fer­ing of an ap­par­at­us is equi­val­ent to mak­ing it avail­able on the mar­ket.

⁴ The pla­cing on the mar­ket of a second-hand im­por­ted ap­par­at­us is equi­val­ent to the pla­cing of a new ap­par­at­us on the mar­ket, un­less an identic­al new ap­par­at­us has been placed on the Swiss mar­ket.

⁵ An im­port­er or dis­trib­ut­or is equi­val­ent to a man­u­fac­turer if it:

a.

places an ap­par­at­us on the mar­ket un­der its own name or its own trade­mark; or

b.

mod­i­fies an ap­par­at­us already on the mar­ket so that con­form­ity with this Or­din­ance may be com­prom­ised.

⁶ The re­pair of equip­ment is equi­val­ent to use.