Federal Act
on Protection against Dangerous Substances and Preparations
(Chemicals Act, ChemA)

¹ When is­su­ing its pro­vi­sions, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall give due con­sid­er­a­tion to in­ter­na­tion­ally har­mon­ised guidelines and re­com­mend­a­tions, and in­ter­na­tion­ally har­mon­ised tech­nic­al reg­u­la­tions and stand­ards.

² It may de­clare cer­tain in­ter­na­tion­ally har­mon­ised tech­nic­al reg­u­la­tions and stand­ards to be ap­plic­able in con­nec­tion with this Act. It may au­thor­ise the rel­ev­ant fed­er­al of­fice to make sub­sequent ad­just­ments to tech­nic­al de­tails of minor im­port­ance in the reg­u­la­tions and stand­ards that have been de­clared ap­plic­able.

³ In ex­cep­tion­al cases, it may de­cide that the reg­u­la­tions and stand­ards de­clared ap­plic­able are to be pub­lished in a spe­cial form and that trans­la­tion in­to the of­fi­cial lan­guages is not re­quired.