G/TBT/N/CHE/182
7 October 2014 
(14-5648)  Page: 1/2
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English
 
  NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member: SWITZERLAND  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):    
2. Agency responsible: Federal Office for Communications 
Name and address (including telephon e and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above : 
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO 
Holzikofenweg 36 
3003 Berne Fax +41 31 324 09 58 tbt@seco.admin.ch   
http://www.seco.admin.ch   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Telecommunication 
equipment: radio equipment and telecommunication terminal equipment 
5. Title, number of pages and langua ge(s) of the notified document: Draft of Decree of 
the Federal Office for Communications on Telecommunications Installations (OOIT) (2 pages, 
in French, German and Italian) 
6. Description of content: Partial revision of the Decree of the Federal Office for 
Communications on telecommunications installations (OOIT). Two new interface regulations have been created for avalanche detection and landslide monitoring at 10 GHz. Some clarification regarding power limitation has been added for 5 GHz RLANs. Several 
new interface regulations for short range devices, transport and traffic applications, RFID, 
data acquisition and listening devices in the range of 870 upto 918 MHz have been created. Two new RIR for MBAN in the 2.4 GHz band have been created. A IEC standards 
has been removed from maritime and waterway radar interface regulation. Frequency 
ranges for radio microphones and cordless cameras have been extended between 1785 - 3800 MHz. For radio microphones (1785 - 1804.8 MHz) a standard to support also digital 
microphones has been added.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
OOIT needs to be amended to follow the evolution of the frequency management in 
Europe. The use of some frequency bands has also been specified. Furthermore some new 
radio interface regulations have been added.  G/TBT/N/CHE/182 
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
- Decree of 14 June 2002 of the Federal Office for Communications on telecommunications 
installations (RS 784.101.21; RO 2002 2111), available in 
http://www.admin.ch/opc/fr/classifi ed-compilation/20021021/index.html  (French), 
http://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classifi ed-compilation/20021021/index.html  (German) and 
http://www.admin.ch/opc/it/classifi ed-compilation/20021021/index.html  (Italian). 
- And its modifications of 10 February 2003 (RO 2003 335), of 19 May 2003 (RO 2003 
1490), of 15 December 2003 (RO 2003 5193), 20 January 2005 (RO 2005 681), 19 May 2005 (RO 2005 2219), 7 September 2005 (RO 2005 4627), 21 November 2005 (RO 2005 
5139), 3 July 2006 (RO 2006 2915), 15 November 2006 (RO 2006 4665), 9 March 2007 
(RO 2007 1001), 2 May 2007 (RO 2007 2263), 17 September 2007 (RO 2007 4427), 30 November 2007 (RO 2007 7081) 28 April 2008 (RO 2008 1907), 5 December 2008 (RO 2008 6471), 17 August 2009 (RO 2009 4229), 30 November 2009 (R0 2009 6543), 
15 March 2010 (RO2010 959), 16 August 2010 (RO 2010 3549), 1 November 2010 
(RO 2010 5067), 7 April 2011 (RO 2011 1395), 5 September 2011 (RO 2011 4339), 14 November 2011 (RO 2011 5265), 12 April 2012 (RO 2012 1921), 13 August 2012 
(RO 2012 4337), 26 November 2012 (RO 2012 6565), 12 August 2013 (RO 2013 2649), 
25 November 2013 (RO 2013 4129) and 8 April 2014 (RO 2014 919). 
- Draft radio interface regulations are available in: 
http://www.bakom.admin.ch/org/grundlage n/00563/00575/02143/ index.html?lang=en  
(English), 
http://www.bakom.admin.ch/org/grundlage n/00563/00575/02143/ index.html?lang=fr  
(French), 
http://www.bakom.admin.ch/org/grundlage n/00563/00575/02143/ index.html?lang=de  
(German) and 
http://www.bakom.admin.ch/org/grundlage n/00563/00575/02143/ index.html?lang=it  
(Italian). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   1 January 2015 
Proposed date of entry into force:   1 January 2015   
10. Final date for comments: 1 December 2014 
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:    
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/tbt/CHE/14_4374_00_f.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachme nts/2014/tbt/CHE/14_4374_00_x1.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachme nts/2014/tbt/CHE/14_4374_00_x2.pdf