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

¹ The re­port­ing re­quire­ments spe­cified in this Chapter do not ap­ply to:

a.⁸⁶

in­ter­me­di­ates that:

1.

are not giv­en to third parties,

2.

do not leave the man­u­fac­tur­ing site, or

3.

are placed on the mar­ket in quant­it­ies less than 100kg per year;

b.

sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions which are placed on the mar­ket solely for pur­poses of ana­lys­is, re­search or edu­ca­tion, or which are sub­ject to re­search and de­vel­op­ment;

c.

sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions used ex­clus­ively for food­stuffs, thera­peut­ic products or an­im­al feed­ing­stuffs;

d.

fer­til­isers which re­quire au­thor­isa­tion from the Fed­er­al Of­fice for Ag­ri­cul­ture (FO­AG) or have to be no­ti­fied to the FO­AG un­der the Fer­til­iser Or­din­ance of 10 Janu­ary 2001⁸⁷;

e.

ex­plos­ives and pyro­tech­nic devices which re­quire au­thor­isa­tion un­der the Ex­plos­ives Or­din­ance of 27 Novem­ber 2000⁸⁸;

f.

sub­stances ob­tained in Switzer­land;

g.

pre­par­a­tions ob­tained in Switzer­land and sup­plied in pack­aging oth­er than that provided by the ori­gin­al man­u­fac­turer, provided that:

1.⁸⁹

the trade name, com­pos­i­tion, the UFI and the in­ten­ded use are un­changed, and

2.

the name of the ori­gin­al man­u­fac­turer is also in­dic­ated;

h.

gas mix­tures con­sist­ing ex­clus­ively of re­por­ted gases;

i.

pre­par­a­tions not deemed to be dan­ger­ous un­der Art­icle 3 which are in pack­ages con­tain­ing no more than 200 ml, if they are man­u­fac­tured in Switzer­land and sup­plied dir­ectly to pro­fes­sion­al or private users;

j.

pre­par­a­tions placed on the mar­ket in quant­it­ies of less than 100 kg per year and in­ten­ded ex­clus­ively for pro­fes­sion­al users;

k.⁹⁰

sub­stances no­ti­fied by the man­u­fac­turer in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 24.

² In­ter­me­di­ates in the form of monomers which are new sub­stances as defined in para­graph 1 let­ter a are not ex­emp­ted from the no­ti­fic­a­tion re­quire­ments of this chapter.

a.

in­ter­me­di­ates as defined in para­graph 1 let­ter a in the form of monomers, which are new sub­stances;

b.

pre­par­a­tions as defined in para­graph 1 let­ters b, c, h, i and j that have a UFI.⁹¹