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

¹ The pre­vi­ous no­ti­fi­ers are en­titled to re­ceive fair re­mu­ner­a­tion from the new no­ti­fi­er for the use of their data from pre­vi­ous tests on ver­teb­rates if the term of pro­tec­tion for such data has not yet ex­pired.

² The no­ti­fi­ers shall take steps in­de­pend­ently to reach an agree­ment on data shar­ing and re­mu­ner­a­tion. They may seek an ar­bit­rat­or’s re­port.

³ If no agree­ment is reached, the new no­ti­fi­er may ap­ply to the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity for a rul­ing on the amount of the re­mu­ner­a­tion; the re­quest may be made no earli­er than four months after re­ceipt of the no­ti­fic­a­tion re­ferred to in Art­icle 31 para­graph 3. The new no­ti­fi­er shall in­form the pre­vi­ous no­ti­fi­ers of his/her ap­plic­a­tion.

⁴ The No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity shall is­sue a rul­ing on the amount of the re­mu­ner­a­tion no later than 60 days after the re­quest re­ferred to in para­graph 3. If an ar­bit­rat­or’s re­port has been sub­mit­ted, the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity is bound by it un­less the parties raise ob­jec­tions with­in 30 days in terms of Art­icle 189 para­graph 3 of the Civil Pro­ced­ure Code⁷⁴. In the ab­sence of an ar­bit­rat­or’s re­port, the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity shall take par­tic­u­lar ac­count in its rul­ing of:

a.

the costs in­curred by the pre­vi­ous no­ti­fi­ers in ob­tain­ing the test res­ults;

b.

the re­main­ing peri­od of pro­tec­tion for the data con­cerned.