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

¹ Any per­son who wil­fully:

a.

in­fringes the pro­vi­sions con­cern­ing self-reg­u­la­tion (Art. 5);

b.

breaches the duty of care in the hand­ling of sub­stances or pre­par­a­tions (Art. 8, Art. 21, Art. 23 and Art. 25 para. 1);

c.

fails to re­port de­tails of sub­stances or pre­par­a­tions or gives false in­form­a­tion (Art. 18);

d.

con­tra­venes the la­belling re­quire­ments for pois­on­ous plants and an­im­als (Art. 19 para. 2 let. f);

e.

in­fringes the reg­u­la­tions con­cern­ing ad­vert­ising (Art. 20);

f.

re­fuses to ac­cept the re­turn of dan­ger­ous sub­stances or pre­par­a­tions (Art. 22 para. 1);

g.

breaches the duty to provide in­form­a­tion to the can­ton­al en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies (Art. 25 para. 2);

h.

breaches the duty to provide in­form­a­tion or mis­in­forms the en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies (Art. 42 para. 2);

i.

con­tra­venes an in­junc­tion is­sued with spe­cif­ic ref­er­ence to the sanc­tions of the present art­icle,

shall be li­able to a fine not ex­ceed­ing 20,000 Swiss francs.¹⁶

² In cases of neg­li­gence, the pen­alty shall be a fine.

³ For an in­fringe­ment of im­ple­ment­ing reg­u­la­tions that does not con­sti­tute an of­fence un­der para­graph 1 or Art­icle 49, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may im­pose:

a.

a fine of up to 20,000 Swiss francs for wil­ful acts, or

b.

a fine in cases of neg­li­gence.¹⁷

⁴ At­tempts and aid­ing and abet­ting are also of­fences.

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