Ordinance
on Protection against Dangerous Substances and Preparations
(Chemicals Ordinance, ChemO)

¹ No­ti­fic­a­tion is not re­quired for:

a.

poly­mers or sub­stances con­tained as monomer units or chem­ic­ally bound to the poly­mer in a con­cen­tra­tion of less than 2 per cent by weight;

b.

sub­stances in­cluded in the No-Longer Poly­mers (NLP) list⁶¹;

c.

sub­stances placed on the mar­ket in quant­it­ies of less than 1 tonne per year;

d.

sub­stances placed on the mar­ket by a man­u­fac­turer:

1.

ex­clus­ively for product and pro­cess-ori­ent­ated re­search and de­vel­op­ment pur­poses,

2.

in quant­it­ies not ex­ceed­ing those re­quired for the spe­cified pur­pose, and

3.

for a peri­od not ex­ceed­ing five years; in re­sponse to a jus­ti­fied re­quest, the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity may, in con­sulta­tion with the as­sess­ment au­thor­it­ies, ex­tend this peri­od by an ad­di­tion­al five or ten years;

e.

sub­stances used ex­clus­ively as raw ma­ter­i­als, act­ive in­gredi­ents or ad­dit­ives in food­stuffs, thera­peut­ic products and an­im­al feed­ing­stuffs;

f.

sub­stances ob­tained in Switzer­land;

g.

in­ter­me­di­ates, provided that they are not monomers;

h.

sub­stances lis­ted in An­nex V to the REACH Reg­u­la­tion⁶²;

i.

sub­stances already no­ti­fied and ex­por­ted by the man­u­fac­turer, and re-im­por­ted by the same or an­oth­er man­u­fac­turer in the same sup­ply chain who can show that:

1.

the sub­stance be­ing re-im­por­ted is the same as the ex­por­ted sub­stance,

2.

he has been provided with a safety data sheet in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 20 for the ex­por­ted sub­stance, if this is re­quired un­der Art­icle 19.

² If there are reas­ons to sup­pose that a giv­en sub­stance that is ex­empt from no­ti­fic­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 may en­danger hu­mans or the en­vir­on­ment, the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity shall, if so re­ques­ted by an as­sess­ment au­thor­ity, re­quire the man­u­fac­turer to present cer­tain test re­ports. The in­form­a­tion re­quired for these test re­ports must not go bey­ond that which must be sub­mit­ted for the tech­nic­al dossier in ac­cord­ance with An­nex 4 num­ber 8 let­ter a, num­ber 9 let­ter a and num­ber 10 let­ter a.

³ Dan­ger­ous sub­stances, PBT or vPvB sub­stances that are ex­empt from the ob­lig­a­tion to no­ti­fy in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ters a–c must be re­por­ted in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 48.⁶³