Ordinance
on Licensing in the Medicinal Products Sector
(Medicinal Products Licensing Ordinance, MPLO)

¹ Any per­son who ex­ports medi­cin­al products that can be used for cap­it­al pun­ish­ment re­quires a li­cence from Swiss­med­ic for each trans­ac­tion.

² Any per­son who trades abroad in such medi­cin­al products re­quires a li­cence from Swiss­med­ic for each trans­ac­tion.

³ A li­cence as de­scribed in para­graphs 1 and 2 may be gran­ted provided the ap­plic­ant:

a.

con­firms to Swiss­med­ic that, fol­low­ing in­vest­ig­a­tions, there is no evid­ence that the medi­cin­al products in ques­tion will be used for cap­it­al pun­ish­ment; and

b.

sub­mits a de­clar­a­tion by the cus­tom­er stat­ing that the medi­cin­al products will not be used by the cus­tom­er or by third parties for cap­it­al pun­ish­ment.

⁴ Swiss­med­ic pub­lishes a list of medi­cin­al products that can be used for cap­it­al pun­ish­ment It takes in­to ac­count val­id EU law, in par­tic­u­lar the del­eg­ated acts and im­ple­ment­ing acts ad­op­ted by the European Com­mis­sion on the basis of Coun­cil Reg­u­la­tion (EC) No. 1236/2005¹⁷.