G/TBT/N/CHE/197  
 
14 July 2015  
(15-3623)  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 of 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 language(s) of the notified document:  
 Draft revision of the Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Office of Communications on 
telecommunications installations (OOIT), 2 pages in French, German and Italian (to 
be amended) 
 Radio Interface Regulation (RIR) 0102-05, 1 page in English (to be abrogated) 
 Draft revision RIR 0302-03, 2 pages in English (to be amended) 
 Draft revision RIR 0501-10, 2 pages in English (to be amended) 
 Draft RIR 0501-26, 2 pages in English (new) 
 Draft RIR 0501-27, 2 pages in English (new) 
6. Description of content: The Ordinance of the Swiss Federal Office of Communications on 
telecommunications installations (OOIT) specifies the basic technical requirements with 
regard to telecommunications installations set out by the Swiss Federal Council. It 
regulates the use of radio interfaces in Switzerland.  
Two new interface regulations for IMT (international mobile telecommunications) based 
stations and user equipment between 880 – 960 MHz will be introduced (RIR0501-26 and 
RIR 0501-27). A frequency range assigned to point-to-point applications will be limited to 1518 – 1525 MHz (RIR 0302-03). For MFCN (mobile/fixed communications networks) applications on airplanes a new BTS (base transceiver station) transmit band 2110 – 2170 
MHz (Band E) as well as a NCU (network co ntrol unit) noise band 791 – 821 MHz (Band G) 
will be added (RIR 0501-10). An interface regulation for aeronautical radio navigation in the frequency range of 5030 – 5091 MHz will be abrogated (RIR 0102-05). G/TBT/N/CHE/197 
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: The OOIT has to be updated to follow the latest frequency management in 
Europe.  
8. Relevant documents:  
 Ordinance of 14 June 2002 of the Swiss Federal Office of Communications on 
telecommunications installations (OOIT; RS 784.101.21), available in 
https://www.admin.ch/opc/fr/classifi ed-compilation/20021021/index.html  (French), 
https://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classifi ed-compilation/20021021/index.html  
(German) and https://www.admin.ch/opc/it/classified-
compilation/20021021/index.html  (Italian) 
 RIR 0102-05: http://www.ofcomnet.ch/cgi-bin/rir.pl?id=9999;nb=444  
 RIR 0302-03: http://www.ofcomnet.ch/cgi-bin/rir.pl?id=9999;nb=443  
 RIR 0501-10: http://www.ofcomnet.ch/cgi-bin/rir.pl?id=9999;nb=442  
 RIR 0501-26: http://www.ofcomnet.ch/cgi-bin/rir.pl?id=9999;nb=445  
 RIR 0501-27: http://www.ofcomnet.ch/cgi-bin/rir.pl?id=9999;nb=446  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 1 September 2015 
Proposed date of entry into force: 1 September 2015   
10. Final date for comments: 10 August 2015 
11. Texts available from: Nati onal enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
https://members. wto.org/crnattachments/2 015/TBT/CHE/15_2284_00_f.pdf  
https://member s.wto.org/crnattachments/2 015/TBT/CHE/15_2058_00_x2.pdf  
https://member s.wto.org/crnattachments/2 015/TBT/CHE/15_2284_00_x1.pdf