. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CHE/118 
5 October 2009  
 (09-4747) 
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 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, Effingerstrasse 1, CH 3003 Berne, paula.wey@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), 4 pages in French 
and in German.     
6. Description of content:  Partial revision of the Decree  of the Federal Office for 
Communications on telecommunications installa tions (OOIT). This revision introduces 
technical requirements, measurem ents methods and limits to be used in case of interferences 
from power line (PLT) networks. This revision af fects also the use of some frequency bands. 
It introduces the possibility of having dig ital modulation in the 87.5-108 MHz broadcasting 
band. It also concerns the extension of the GSM900 frequency band: 873-915 MHz for up-
link (transmit frequency of user equipment), 918-960 MHz for down-link (transmit frequency 
for base station) and 873-960 MHz (for repeat ers). Some frequency bands for railways 
applications have been adapted. It concer ns following frequency bands: 7300-23000 kHz for 
Euroloop applications and 984-7484 kHz for Euro balise applications. The frequency band 
516-8516 kHz cannot be used for new Euroloop ap plications; existing applications can use 
this frequency band only until 31.12.2020.The re quirements for the use of non-specific short 
range devices (SRD) in followi ng frequency bands have been upda ted according to the latest 
decision on SRD from the European Comm ission: 863-865 MHz, 865-868 MHz, 868-868.6 
MHz, 868.7-869.2 MHz, 869.4-869.65 MHz and 869.7-870 MHz. The frequency band 470-790 MHz may be used in future for all wire less microphones (not any more limited for 
applications in relation with broadcasting) . A license remains mandatory for the use.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
OOIT must be amended to take in account ch anges in the allocation of radio spectrum 
according to CEPT/ECC recommendations and decisions. It also has been amended to help to 
solve interferences due to power line networks.  G/TBT/N/CHE/118 
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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)    
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined. 
1 January 2010   
10. Final date for comments:  1 December 2009 
11. Text available from: National enquiry po int [ X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:   And can be 
downloaded here:  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2009/tbt/che/09_3380_00_x.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2009/tbt/che/09_3380_00_f.pdf