Commentaries: Art. 179

The FOPH shall maintain a training and continuing education database, in which the following persons subject to mandatory training and continuing education are registered:
1. persons who meet the requirements for being able to serve as radiological protection experts;
2. radiological protection specialists and radiological protection technicians as specified in Article 183 letter b;
3. persons who require recognised continuing education as specified in Article 182 or 183;
4. radon consultants as specified in Article 161 paragraph 1.
The purpose of the database is:
1. to make available the information required for granting licences on the occupational training, recognised radiological protection training and continuing education of the person concerned;
2. to simplify the administrative procedures required for granting licences;
3. to simplify supervision by the authorities in the area of individual training and continuing education.
The following data concerning persons registered in accordance with paragraph 1 shall be stored in the database:
1. name, former name, first name;
2. date of birth;
3. place of origin (for foreign nationals: place of birth and nationality);
4. occupational training;
5. type, venue and date of radiological protection training courses;
6. type, venue and date of radiological protection continuing education courses;
7. for individual training and continuing education as specified in Article 178: date of recognition of equivalence.
The responsible staff of the supervisory authorities are entitled to process online the data of persons within their area of supervision.
Training institutions which offer recognised radiological protection courses may record and retrieve online the data concerning persons who have completed their training or continuing education at the institution concerned. They may modify data concerning such persons relating to courses which they have conducted themselves.
The FOPH shall enable the persons concerned to access electronically their own data in the training and continuing education database.