G/TBT/N/CHE/174  
 
4 February 2014  
(14-0616)  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 Email:  tbt@seco.admin.ch ,  
Website:  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 applicable, 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), 
3 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). A new interface regulation has been created in the range of 9300 - 9500MHz for bird migration radar. In the range of 1980 – 3800MHz (cordless cameras), 71 - 76GHz and 81 - 86GHz (Point-to-Point) the 
bandwidths have been partially tightened.  Furthermore the application of avalanche 
victim detection in the range 456.900 - 457.100kHz has been extended also to other localization.  
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 fr equency bands has also been specified. 
Furthermore some new radio interface regulations have been added.  
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 , 
http://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classifi ed-compilation/20021021/index.html  
http://www.admin.ch/opc/it/classifi ed-compilation/20021021/index.html  
- And its modifications of 10 February 2003 (RO 2003 335), of 19 Mai 2003 (RO 
2003 1490), of 15 December 2003 (RO 2003 5193), 20 January 2005 (RO 2005 G/TBT/N/CHE/174 
 
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  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) and 25 November 2013 (RO 2013 4129). 
- Draft radio interface regulations are available in 
http://www.bakom.admin.ch/org/grundla gen/00563/00575/02 143/index.html?lan
g=en , 
http://www.bakom.admin.ch/org/grundla gen/00563/00575/02 143/index.html?lan
g=fr, 
http://www.bakom.admin.ch/org/grundla gen/00563/00575/02 143/index.html?lan
g=de  
http://www.bakom.admin.ch/org/grundla gen/00563/00575/02 143/index.html?lan
g=it.   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    1 May 2014 1 May 2014 
10. Final date for comments:  1 April 2014 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:   
http://members.wto.org/crnattachme nts/2014/tbt/CHE/14_0499_00_f.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachme nts/2014/tbt/CHE/14_0499_00_x.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachme nts/2014/tbt/CHE/14_0499_00_x2.pdf