. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CHE/134 
6 July 2011  
 (11-3304) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  SWITZERLAND  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Federal Office for Communications 
Name and address (including telephone 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 
Non-tariff Measures Effingerstrasse 1 CH - 3003 Berne  Fax:  +41 31 324 09 58 
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):  Telecommunication 
equipment: radio equipment and tele communication 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) (2 pages, in French, 
German and Italian). 
6. Description of content:  Partial revision of the Decree  of the Federal Office for 
Communications on telecommunications instal lations (OOIT). Some  radio interface 
regulations have also been updated to take in to account changes occurred in the spectrum 
management. Sharing conditions in the 10.6- 10.68 GHz band between the fixed service and 
the Earth exploration satellite service have be en reviewed according to ECC/DEC/(10)01. In 
the frequency band 433.050 - 434.790 MHz (with  1 mW transmit power and with 100 % 
Duty cycle) voice applications are allowed with advanced mitigation techniques and in the same frequency band (with 10 mW  transmit power and 10 % duty cycle) analogue audio 
applications other than voice are exclud ed. In the frequency band 434.040 - 434.790 MHz 
(with 10 mW transmit power and with 100 % Duty cycle) voice applicatio ns are allowed with 
advanced mitigation techniques. In the fre quency bands 863.000 - 865.000 MHz and 869.400 
- 869.650 MHz a duty cycle of maximum 0.1% or  mitigations techniques as LBT + AFA will 
be required. In the frequency bands 865 .000 - 868.000 MHz and 869.700 - 870.000 MHz a 
duty cycle of maximum 1% or mitigations te chniques as LBT + AFA will be required. 
According to Annex 10 of  ERC/REC 70-03, the frequency band 786 - 789 MHz can be used G/TBT/N/CHE/134 
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  with a license for wireless mi crophones with an effective radi ated power of maximum 12 mW 
and without a license for wireless microphones wi th an effective radiat ed power of maximum 
1 mW. The frequency band 823 - 826 MHz can be used with a license for wireless microphones with a radiated power of maxi mum 20 mW EIRP (or maximum 100 mW EIRP 
for body worn wireless microphon es) and without a license for wireless microphones with an 
effective radiated power of maximum 1 mW. The frequency band 826 - 832 MHz can be used 
with a license for wireless microphones with a radiated pow er of maximum 100 mW EIRP 
and without a license for wireless microphones wi th an effective radiat ed power of maximum 
1 mW. In the frequency band 26.960 - 27.410 MH z the maximum transmitter power will be 
increased to 4 Watts (RMS) fo r DSB modulated AM, and 12 Wa tts (PEP) for SSB modulated 
Citizen Band equipment according to the new ECC decision ECC/DEC/(11)CC. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
OOIT must be amended in preparation of the introduction of the digital dividend in 
Switzerland, permit th e introduction of new applications in  some frequency bands and precise 
the use of some other frequency bands.  
8. Relevant documents:   
 Decree of 14th June 2002 of the Fe deral Office for Communications on 
telecommunications installations (RS 784.101.21; RO 2002 2111), available in 
French, German and Italian. 
 And its modifications of 10th Februa ry 2003 (RO 2003 335), of 19th May 2003 (RO 
2003 1490), of 15th December 2003 (RO 2003 5193), 20th January 2005 (RO 2005 681), 19th May 2005 (RO 2005 2219), 7th Se ptember 2005 (RO 2005 4627) 21th  
November 2005 (RO 2005 5139), 3rd July 2006 (RO 2006 2915), 15th November 
2006 (RO 2006 4665),  9th March 2007 (RO 2007 1001), 2nd May 2007 (RO 2007 
2263), 17th September 2007 (RO 2007 4427), 30th November 2007 (RO 2007 7081) 28th April 2008 (RO 2008 1907), 5th Dece mber 2008 (RO 2008 6471), 17th August 
2009 (RO 2009 4229), 30rd November 2009 (R0 2009 6543), 15th March 2010 (RO2010 959), 16th August 2010 (RO2010 35491st November 2010 (RO 2010 
5067) and 7th April 2110 (RO 2011 1395).  
 Draft radio interface regulati ons are available in English, French, German and Italian 
on the following web-site: "http://www.bakom.admin.ch/org/grundl agen/00563/00575/02143/index.html?lang=e
n"  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:        
1 October 2011   
10. Final date for comments:  1 September 2011 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body: 
Text can be downloaded at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/CHE/11_2062_00_f.pdf  (French) 
http://members.wto.org/crna ttachments/2011/tbt/CHE/11_2062_00_x.pdf  (German) 
http://members.wto.org/crna ttachments/2011/tbt/CHE/11_2062_00_x2.pdf  (Italian)