. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CHE/157 
18 July 2012  
 (12-3900) 
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 Holzikofenweg 36 CH-3003 Berne  Fax:  +41 31 324 09 58 Email:  mailto: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 telecommunications  terminal equipment as referred to in 
Directive 1999/5/EC of 9 March 1999 (OJ # L 91/10 of 7 April 1999). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Decree on 
telecommunications installations (OIT) (3 pages, in French)     
6. Description of content:  Partial revision of the Decree on telecommunications installations 
(OIT). This revision clarifies the status of jammers which will be considered as radio 
equipment in the future. The revision will impr ove the enforcement of the prohibition of the 
offer, the placing on the market, initial opera tion and the use of jammers (jammers may only 
be used under specified circumstances by au thorities). This revisi on defines under which 
circumstances jammers may be offered to authorities for the state security.  
Following recent developments in Switzerland's main trading partner' s technical regulation 
this revision introduces in the OIT provisions, admitting that a copy of the declaration of 
conformity may be replaced by a general stat ement on the conformity of the equipment, 
followed by the address where to obtain the full declaration of conform ity. The revision will 
also allow the market surveillance aut hority (OFCOM) to publish information on 
non-compliant products found on the market. A sp ecific provision sets out conditions under 
which such a publication is possible and which elements would be published. 
This revision will allow the market surveillance  authority to issue a "general sales ban" for 
specific equipment as e.g. jammers. G/TBT/N/CHE/157 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
OIT needs to be amended to update and spec ify provisions in order to follow recent 
developments in Switzerland's main trading partner's te chnical regulation.  
8. Relevant documents:   - Decree of 14 June 2002 on telecommunications installations 
(RS 784.101.21; RO 2002 2086), available in French, German and Italian.    
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    - 
1 January 2013 
10. Final date for comments:  5 October 2012 
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/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/CHE/12_2674_00_f.pdf