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

¹ This Or­din­ance:

a.

pro­hib­its or re­stricts the use of the par­tic­u­larly dan­ger­ous sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions and art­icles covered by the An­nexes;

b.

spe­cifies the per­son­al and pro­fes­sion­al qual­i­fic­a­tions re­quired for the use of cer­tain par­tic­u­larly dan­ger­ous sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions and art­icles.

² Without pre­ju­dice to spe­cif­ic dis­pos­al re­quire­ments laid down in this Or­din­ance, sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions and art­icles which are waste, as defined in Art­icle 7 para­graph 6 EPA, are sub­ject to:

a.⁸

the Waste Man­age­ment Or­din­ance of 4 Decem­ber 2015⁹;

b.¹⁰

the Or­din­ance of 22 June 2005¹¹ on Move­ments of Waste; and

c.

the Or­din­ance of 14 Janu­ary 1998¹² on the Re­turn, Take-Back and Dis­pos­al of Elec­tric­al and Elec­tron­ic Equip­ment.

³ This Or­din­ance does not ap­ply to:

a.

the trans­port of sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions and art­icles by road, rail, wa­ter, air or pipelines;

b.¹³

the trans­it of sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions and art­icles un­der cus­toms su­per­vi­sion, provided that they do not un­der­go any pro­cessing or trans­form­a­tion.