Ordinance
on the Reduction of Risks relating to the Use of Certain Particularly Dangerous Substances, Preparations and Articles
(Chemical Risk Reduction Ordinance, ORRChem)

¹ On a spot-check basis or at the re­quest of the FOPH, FO­AG, FOEN or SECO, the can­ton­al en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies shall in­spect sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions and art­icles placed on the mar­ket at the premises of man­u­fac­tur­ers, traders and pro­fes­sion­al or com­mer­cial users. They shall check wheth­er the sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions and art­icles com­ply with the pro­vi­sions of the An­nexes, in par­tic­u­lar with re­gard to com­pos­i­tion, la­belling and in­form­a­tion for pur­chasers.²⁹

2 They shall also check wheth­er the use of these sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions and art­icles com­plies with the re­quire­ments of this Or­din­ance.

³ If the sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions or art­icles in­spec­ted or the use there­of give cause for com­plaint, the in­spec­tion au­thor­ity shall in­form the au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for rul­ings un­der Art­icle 19. If the lat­ter are can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies, it shall ad­di­tion­ally in­form the FOPH, FOEN and SECO and also, in cases of com­plaints con­cern­ing plant pro­tec­tion products, the FS­VO and the FO­AG, and in cases of com­plaints con­cern­ing fer­til­isers, the FO­AG.³⁰