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The Federal Council (the Swiss government) has been instructed by the Federal Assembly (parliament) to devise a new system for collecting the reception fee to bring the financing of the public service into line with the evolution of technology. Thus the motion tabled by the transport and telecommunications committee of the National Council (CTT-N), which was passed on to the Federal Council in September 2011, provides that the fee in future would cease to be dependent on the possession of an appliance allowing the reception of radio or television programmes, and would instead be levied on all households...

The minimum age for admission to public showings of films is from now on the same throughout Switzerland. In order to achieve this, the conference of regional directors of justice and police (Conférence des Directeurs Cantonaux de Justice et Police - CCDJP) has drawn up an agreement with the Swiss association of film operators and distributors (ProCinema), the Swiss videogram association (Association Suisse du Vidéogramme - ASV), and the Swiss conference of regional directors of public education (Conférence Suisse des Directeurs Cantonaux de l’Instruction Publique - CDIP). The purpose of the agreement...

Since 1 November 2011, the German-language television channel SF info has been authorised to broadcast programmes from the French- and Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland. Previously, it was in theory only allowed to broadcast programmes already shown on SF1 or SF2, the two television channels of the Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF). SRF is the German-language business unit and branch of the Swiss radio and television broadcasting company (Société Suisse de Radiodiffusion et Télévision - SSR). Launched initially on an experimental basis on 3 May 1999, SF info’s mandate was confirmed on 17 January...

In October, the Unabhängige Beschwerdeinstanz für Radio und Fernsehen (Independent Radio and Television Complaints Authority - UBI) dealt for the first time with a dispute over a party’s participation in a forthcoming TV election broadcast. The small party “La Gauche”, which has one representative in the Swiss parliament, told the UBI that it should be given greater prominence in the election broadcasts of the public service broadcaster Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft (Swiss radio and television corporation - SRG). It complained that the SRG’s Télévision Suisse Romande had categorised...

The Swiss Government has concluded another agreement on cinematographic cooperation with Germany and Austria. The aim is to facilitate international co-productions and promote the circulation and exploitation of films from any of the contracting States, and it came into force on 23 June 2011. It is the first trilateral agreement Switzerland has concluded in the field of cinematographic cooperation, and it replaces the bilateral agreements concluded with Germany in 1984 and with Austria in 1990. The new agreement on cinematographic cooperation applies to films intended mainly to be shown in cinema...