# Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU/FOEN)

> Administers Switzerland's ONIR/NISV ordinance, which adds legally binding precautionary installation limit values well below ICNIRP reference levels at places of sensitive use.

- Canonical URL: https://emfbase.com/organizations/bafu
- Collection: Organizations
- Record id: `organizations:bafu-ch`
- Status: verified
- Last verified: 2026-08-12
- JSON: https://emfbase.com/api/organizations/bafu
- Also known as: FOEN, BAFU, OFEV

## Key values

- **Role:** regulator
- **Jurisdiction:** CH
- **Website:** https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/en/home/topics/electrosmog.html

## Related records

- [Swiss ONIR / NISV installation limit values](https://emfbase.com/standards/swiss-onir-nisv): Switzerland's precaution-based installation limits for fixed transmitters and power lines, roughly a factor of 10 below ICNIRP in field strength terms.
- [Swiss installation limit value for mobile phone antennas](https://emfbase.com/limits/swiss-installation-limit-mobile-antennas): 4–6 V/m at places of sensitive use depending on band — about 100 times lower in power density than ICNIRP's reference level.

## Sources

- `ch-onir` Swiss Confederation (2000). *Ordinance relating to Protection from Non-Ionising Radiation (ONIR / NISV, SR 814.710)*. https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2000/38/en — regulation, link checked 2026-08-12

Data licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Dataset version 2026.08.1. Retrieved from EMFBase, https://emfbase.com.

This record is reference data, not medical or legal advice. Regulatory limits, scientific guidelines and precautionary values are labelled separately and answer different questions.