G/TBT/N/CHE/170  
 
18 September 2013  
(13-4946)  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), 
(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). Several radio interfaces regulations have been created and deleted affecting short range devices and non-specific short range devices in the range from 26.990MHz - 123GHz. Other radio interfaces 
regulations have been reviewed to correct information regarding the channeling and 
modulation bandwidth. In some radio interfaces regulation, the application has been aligned to the according ECC decision. New radio interfaces regulation has been created 
for mobile satellite systems an T-DAB low power indoor repeater. Some frequency 
planning assumptions for point-to-point li nks have been precised by defining the 
assignation order of CCDP and ACCP and the technical standards. Furthermore 
explanations to the channeling and modula tion class have been done. In addition 
definitions of the modulation classes and the ATPC (automatic transmit power control) range were introduced to ensure ACM (adaptive coding modulation). New radio interfaces regulation for earth stations on mobile platforms (ESOMPs) from 27.5 - 30GHz 
was introduced. Insertion of a new frequency range 1670 - 1675MHz  for mobile satellite 
services following the ECC/DEC(07)05, EN 301 681 and EN 301 444. New radio interfaces regulation for obstruction/vehicle detection via radar sensor at railway level 
crossings in the range of 76 - 77GHz. Extension of the application for the detection of 
avalanche victims radio interfaces regulation. New radio interface regulation for ultra - wideband (UWB) applications onboard aircraft in the range of 6 - 8.5GHz.  G/TBT/N/CHE/170 
 
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  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 14th June 2002 of the Federal Office for Communications on 
telecommunications installations (RS 784.101.21; RO 2002 2111), available in French , German  and Italian . 
- 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 681), 19 Mai 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 Mai 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), 
15th 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), 14th November 2011 (RO 2011 5265), 12 
April 2012 (RO 2012-1921), 13 August 2012 (RO 2012 4337), 26 November 2012 (RO 2012 6565) and 12 August 2013 (RO 2013 2649). 
- Draft radio interface regulations are available in English , French , German  and 
Italian . 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    1 January 2014 1 January 2014 
10. Final date for comments:  1 December 2013 
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/crnattach ments/2013/TBT/CHE/13_3691_00_f.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachme nts/2013/tbt/CHE/13_3691_00_x.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachme nts/2013/tbt/CHE/13_3691_00_x2.pdf