. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CHE/97 
13 February 2008 
 (08-0647) 
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 
Non-tariff Measures Division Effingerstrasse 1 CH-3003 Berne Tel: (+41) 3 1324 4477 
Fax: (+41) 3 1324 0958 
e-mail: tbt@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):   Telecommunications 
equipment: radio equipment and tel ecommunications terminal equipment 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Revision of the 
Decree of the Federal Office for Communica tions on telecommunications installations 
(OOIT), (4 pages, available in German and French). 
6. Description of content:    
Partial revision of the Decree of the Federal Office for Communications on 
telecommunications installations (OOIT). The modification concerns the simplification of 
the conditions of placing on the market and their alignment on the legislation of the 
European Community. This revision removes th e requirement of the compliance with the 
Swiss national frequency allocation table as a condition for the placing on the market of 
radiocommunication equipment. After the entry into force of these modifications, 
radiocommunication equipments fulfilling the administrative and the essential requirements 
may be placed on the market even if they cannot  be operated in Switzerland. To ensure the 
information to the user, the actual provisions will be completed with the introduction of a 
conformity marking. This marking placed on the equipment and on the packaging in 
conjunction with the other already required ma rking shall indicate the compliance of the 
equipment with the provision of the applicab le legislation and if it may be used in 
Switzerland. The Office may recognize other conformity marking from economies having a G/TBT/N/CHE/97 
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  mutual recognition agreement (MRA) with Swit zerland that establishes the equivalence of 
applicable essential requirements and corr esponding conformity assessment procedures (as 
the MRA Switzerland - European Community). At the moment, only the CE marking will be recognized as equivalent to the Swiss conf ormity marking. A one year transition period 
is also foreseen to permit equipment which don' t carry this conformity marking to continue 
to be placed on the market until 30 April 200 9. After this date all telecommunication 
equipments have to carry the conformity marking.  
This revision also allocates the 17.1 – 17.3 GHz frequency band for ground based synthetic 
aperture radar to take in account the de velopment of the recommendation ECC/REC 70-03, 
Annex 6, and renames some radio interface regul ation to take in account the development of 
the decision ECC/DEC/(01)03.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
OOIT must be amended to introduce simplifica tions in the regulation and changes in the 
radio interface regulation (according to CEPT/EEC recommendations and decisions).  
8. Relevant documents:   Decree on 14 June 2002 of the Federal Office for Communications 
on telecommunications installations (RS: 784.1 01.21; RO 2002 2086), available in French, 
German and Italian. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    16 April 2008 
1 May 2008 
10. Final date for comments:   10 April 2008 
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:   
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2008/tbt/CHE/08_0419_00_f.pdf