. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CHE/88 
1 October 2007 
 (07-4144) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   SWITZERLAND
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Federal Office for Communications 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
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 
Effingerstrasse 1 CH 3003 Berne 
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):   Telecommunications 
equipment: radio equipment and teleco mmunications terminal equipment. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Decree of  the Federal 
Office for Communications on telecommunications  installations (OOIT) (3 pages, in 
French). 
6. Description of content:   Partial revision of the Decree of the Federal Office for 
Communications on telecommunications installa tions (OOIT). The modification concerns 
the amendment of article 2, 3 and annex 2. Article 2 has been reviewed to permit the 
introduction of the european one stop notificati on which would lead to a simplification of 
the notification process for the market players. Article 3 has been reviewed to simplify the 
requirement of the language of the informati on for the user. They may be written in the 
official language of the region where the equipment is sold (both official languages in bilingual regions) and not any more in the 3 Swiss official languages. The changes to the 
annex 2 are due to the introduction of some fre quency bands for fixed satellite earth stations 
(13.75-14 GHz; 14-14.25 GHz and 29.5-30 GHz) a nd aeronautical earth stations (AES) in 
the mobile satellite service (14.0 - 14.5 GHz);  allocation of the 59 - 63 GHz frequency band 
for point to multipoint  microwave links. Ra dio interface regulations for tank level probing 
radar in the 4.50 - 7.00 GHz, 8.50 - 10.60 GHz, 24.05-27 GHz, 57.00 - 64.00 GHz and 75.00 - 85.00 GHz have been reviewed acco rding to ECC/REC 70-03, Annex 6, amended 
May 2007. The radio interface regulations for RFID applications in the 865.0-865.6 MHz 
and 867.6-868.0 MHz frequency bands have been reviewed according to ECC/REC 70-03, 
Annex 11, amended May 2007.  Licences will be  issued for broadcasting ancillary radio 
equipment in the 2520-2690 MHz frequency band on a temporary basis as long as not all frequencies are used for IMT-2000/UMTS systems. G/TBT/N/CHE/88 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
OOIT must be amended to introduce simplificati ons in the regulations and changes in the 
radio interface regulation (introduction of new frequency bands according to CEPT/ECC 
decisions and changes in the conditi ons of use various frequency bands). 
8. Relevant documents:   Decree of 14 June 2002 of the Federal Office for Communications 
on telecommunications installations (RS 784.101 .21; RO 2002 2111) and its modifications 
of 10 February 2003 (RS 784.101.21 ; RO  2003 335), of 19 May 2003 (RS 784.101.21; RO 
2003 1490), of 15 December 2003 (RS 784.101. 21; RO 2003 5193), 20 January 2005 (RS 
784.101.21; RO 2005 681, 19 May 2005 (RS 784.101.21; RO 2005 2219), 7 September 
2005 (RS784.101.21; RO 2005 4627) 21 Nove mber 2005 (RS 784.101.21; RO 2005 5139), 
3 July 2006 (RS 784.101.21; RO 2006 2915), 15 November 2006 (RS 784.101.21; RO 2006 4665),  9 March 2007 (RO 2007 1001), 2 May 2007 (RO 2007 2263) and 17 September 
2007 (RO 2007 4427). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    - 
1 January 2008 
10. Final date for comments:   30 November 2007 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body: