Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications
(Redirected from Department of Posts and Railways)
The Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC, German: Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation, French: Département fédéral de l'environnement, des transports, de l'énergie et des communications, Italian: Dipartimento federale dell'ambiente, dei trasporti, dell'energia e delle comunicazioni, Romansh: ⓘ) is one of the seven departments of the Swiss federal government, headed by a member of the Swiss Federal Council.
| (in German) Eidgenössisches Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation (in French) Département fédéral de l'environnement, des transports, de l'énergie et des communications (in Italian) Dipartimento federale dell'ambiente, dei trasporti, dell'energia e delle comunicazioni (in Romansh) Departament federal per ambient, traffic, energia e communicaziun | |
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1848 |
| Jurisdiction | Federal administration of Switzerland |
| Headquarters | Bern |
| Employees | 2,500[1] |
| Annual budget | Expenditure: CHF 9 billion Revenue: CHF 815.3 million (2009)[1] |
| Minister responsible | |
| Website | uvek.admin.ch |
Organisation edit
The department is composed of the following offices:[2]
- General Secretariat
- Federal Office for Spatial Development (ARE): Coordinates area planning between the federal agencies, the cantons and the municipalities.
- Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN): Responsible for matters of the environment, including the protection of plants and animals and the protection against noise, air pollution or natural hazards.
- Federal Office for Civil Aviation (FOCA): Regulates civil aviation.
- Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM): Regulates radio and TV stations, notably the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.
- Federal Office of Energy (FOE): Responsible for the provision of electrical energy at the federal level, as well as for the supervision of dams.
- Federal Office of Transport (FOT): Responsible for public transport at the federal level, including the development of the federal rail network and navigation on the Rhine.
- Federal Roads Office (FEDRO): Responsible for the construction, maintenance and operation of the national highway network.
The following independent authorities are affiliated to the DETEC for administrative purposes:
- Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (STSB, formerly Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau and Investigation Bureau for Railway, Funicular and Boat Accidents).
- Federal Communications Commission (ComCom): Regulates the telecommunications market, awards service licences, rules on interconnection disputes and approves frequency and numbering plans.
- Federal Electricity Commission (ElCom): monitors electricity prices, rules as a judicial authority on disputes relating to network access and payment of cost-covering feed-in of electricity produced from renewable energy, monitors electricity supply security and regulates issues relating to international electricity transmission and trading.
- Federal Postal Services Commission (PostCom): Regulates the Swiss Post and Swiss postal market.
- Rail Transport Commission (RailCom): Arbitrates in disputes over access to the rail network and the calculation of fees for the use of infrastructure.
- Independent Complaints Authority for Radio and Television (ICA): Decides on complaints related to radio and television programmes.
- Safety Office (formerly known as the Civil Aviation Safety Office, CASO): supports the development of safety in land, sea and air transport, in the use, transport and distribution of energy, and for communications infrastructures
- Reporting Office for Just Culture in Civil Aviation (ROJCA): strengthens Just Culture through the protection of the information source of an occurrence reporting in Swiss Civil Aviation.
- Federal Inspectorate for Heavy Current Installations (ESTI): Responsible for inspecting low and heavy-current electrical installations.
- Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI): Assesses and monitors security and radiation protection in Swiss nuclear installations.
- Federal Pipelines Inspectorate (ERI): Responsible for the planning, construction and operation of fuel pipeline systems in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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The building of the Federal Office of Civil Aviation, the Federal Roads Office and the Federal Office of Energy
Name of department edit
- 1848–1859: Department of Posts and Construction
- 1860–1872: Department of Posts
- 1873–1878: Department of Posts and Telegraph
- 1879–1962: Department of Posts and Railways
- 1963–1978: Department of Transport, Communications and Energy
- 1979–1997: Federal Department of Transport, Communications and Energy
- Since 1998: Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications
List of heads of the department edit
- 1848–1852: Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
- 1853–1854: Josef Munzinger
- 1855–1866: Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
- 1867 only: Jakob Dubs
- 1868 only: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
- 1869 only: Jakob Dubs
- 1870–1872: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel
- 1873–1875: Eugène Borel
- 1876 only: Joachim Heer
- 1877–1879: Emil Welti
- 1880–1881: Simeon Bavier
- 1882–1883: Emil Welti
- 1884 only: Adolf Deucher
- 1885–1891: Emil Welti
- 1892–1901: Josef Zemp
- 1902 only: Robert Comtesse
- 1903–1907: Josef Zemp
- 1908–1911: Ludwig Forrer
- 1912 only: Robert Comtesse
- 1912 only: Louis Perrier
- 1911–1917: Ludwig Forrer
- 1918–1929: Robert Haab
- 1930–1940: Marcel Pilet-Golaz
- 1940–1950: Enrico Celio
- 1950–1954: Josef Escher
- 1955–1959: Giuseppe Lepori
- 1960–1965: Willy Spühler
- 1966–1968: Rudolf Gnägi
- 1968–1973: Roger Bonvin
- 1974–1979: Willy Ritschard
- 1980–1987: Leon Schlumpf
- 1988–1995: Adolf Ogi
- 1995–2010: Moritz Leuenberger
- 2010–2018: Doris Leuthard
- 2019–2022: Simonetta Sommaruga
- Since 2023: Albert Rösti
See also edit
Notes and references edit
- ^ a b Swiss Federal Chancellery. "The Swiss Confederation – a brief guide 2009". Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
- ^ DETEC, Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications. "Organisation". www.uvek.admin.ch. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
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