. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CHE/78 
27 September 2006 
 (06-4604) 
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 tel ecommunications terminal equipment 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Decree of the Federal 
Office for Communications on telecommunicati ons installations (OOIT), (2 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 annex 2.  The changes to th e annex 2 is due to the introduction of new 
frequency bands according to CEPT/ECC deci sions as the allocation of the 169.4125 - 
169.4625 MHz and 169.4875 - 169.5875 MHz frequency bands for social alarm systems; allocation of the 12.5  - 20 MHz frequency band for medical implants; allocation of 
frequency bands for various inductive applica tions as 148.5 kHz  -  5 MHz,  13.553  -  
13.567 MHz,  5  -  30 MHz,  400  -  600 kHz;  allocation of frequency bands for point to 
point microwave links as 27.5  -  29.5 GHz,  64  -  66 GHz and 71  -  76 GHz (paired with 
81  -  86 GHz).  A license will not be anymore needed for the use of radiomicrophones in the  31.5 - 39-5 MHz frequency band and babymonitoring systems in the 27.81 - 27.88 MHz frequency band (license free).  New radio interface regulations have been drawn in field of 
IMT-2000/UMTS, Inland waterway radar and aerona utical surveillance.  Suppression of the 
75.5 - 76.0 GHz frequency band for radioamateurs. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Annex 2 of the OOIT must be amended with the view of publication of new radio interface 
regulation, introduction of new frequency ba nds according to CEPT/ECC decisions and 
changes in the conditions of use various frequency bands. G/TBT/N/CHE/78 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Decree of 14 June 2002 of the Federal Office for Communications 
on telecommunications installations  (RS 784.101.21; RO 2002 2111):  
http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/rs/7/784.101.21.fr.pdf an d 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 (RS784.101.21; RO 2005 2219), 7 September 2005 (RS784.101.21; 
RO 2005 4627) 21 November 2005 (RS 784.101. 21; RO 2005 5139) and 3 July 2006 (RS 
784.101.21; RO 2006 2915). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    - 
1 January 2007 
10. Final date for comments:   22 December 2006 
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: