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

¹ The self-reg­u­la­tion sys­tem in­tro­duced by Art­icle 5 of the Chem­ic­als Act and Art­icle 26 of the EPA re­quires man­u­fac­tur­ers to as­sess wheth­er sub­stances or pre­par­a­tions may en­danger hu­man life or health or the en­vir­on­ment. To this end, man­u­fac­tur­ers must clas­si­fy, pack­age and la­bel sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions and pre­pare ex­pos­ure scen­ari­os and com­pile safety data sheets in ac­cord­ance with this Or­din­ance.

² In the case of ob­jects con­tain­ing dan­ger­ous sub­stances, sub­stances con­sidered PBT or vPvB, or sub­stances lis­ted in An­nex 3, self-reg­u­la­tion un­der Art­icle 26 of the EPA re­quires man­u­fac­tur­ers to as­sess wheth­er these sub­stances may en­danger the en­vir­on­ment or in­dir­ectly en­danger hu­man health when these ob­jects are used as in­ten­ded, or in a fore­see­able man­ner, or when they are ap­pro­pri­ately dis­posed of.

³ In the case of ob­jects con­tain­ing sub­stances lis­ted in An­nex 3, man­u­fac­tur­ers must as­sess wheth­er these sub­stances may en­danger hu­man health when these ob­jects are used as in­ten­ded, or in a fore­see­able man­ner, or when they are ap­pro­pri­ately dis­posed of.

⁴ Man­u­fac­tur­ers must col­lect all avail­able data of rel­ev­ance to the ob­lig­a­tions re­ferred to in para­graphs 1 and 2.

⁵ Any per­son im­port­ing sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions or ob­jects with dan­ger­ous con­stitu­ents in a pro­fes­sion­al or com­mer­cial ca­pa­city must com­ply with the ob­lig­a­tions lis­ted un­der para­graphs 1 and 2 be­fore sup­ply­ing them to a third party for the first time or, if they are for the im­port­er’s own use, be­fore us­ing them for the first time.