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

¹ The as­sess­ment au­thor­it­ies shall re­view, in their area of com­pet­ence, for sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions and ob­jects:

a.

the as­sess­ment and clas­si­fic­a­tion;

b.

the in­form­a­tion that ap­pears in the safety data sheet.

² They may in­struct the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity:

a.

to veri­fy the com­pos­i­tion and the physi­co­chem­ic­al prop­er­ties of sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions and ob­jects;

b.

to ask can­ton­al en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies to take samples.

³ If there is reas­on to sup­pose that as­sess­ment or clas­si­fic­a­tion has not been car­ried out or has not been car­ried out cor­rectly, the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity, at the re­quest of an as­sess­ment au­thor­ity, shall re­quire the man­u­fac­turer con­cerned to provide:

a.

all the doc­u­ments used in es­tab­lish­ing the haz­ard­ous prop­er­ties or in the as­sess­ment;

b.

the safety data sheet, if ap­pro­pri­ate.

⁴ At the re­quest of an as­sess­ment au­thor­ity, the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity shall re­quire the man­u­fac­turer to per­form tests or ad­di­tion­al as­sess­ments if there are in­dic­a­tions that:

a.

sub­stances or pre­par­a­tions and their sec­ond­ary products or wastes may en­danger hu­man health or the en­vir­on­ment;

b.

ob­jects, their sec­ond­ary products or their wastes may en­danger the en­vir­on­ment.

⁵ Moreover, the en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies have the powers as­signed to them by Art­icle 42 of the Chem­ic­als Act and, in the case of a danger to the en­vir­on­ment, also Art­icle 41 of the Chem­ic­als Act.

⁶ If a man­u­fac­turer does not com­ply with an of­fi­cial or­der, the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity shall, if so re­ques­ted by an as­sess­ment au­thor­ity, pro­hib­it it from con­tinu­ing to sup­ply the sub­stances, pre­par­a­tions or ob­jects con­cerned.

⁷As re­gards cos­met­ic products, and raw ma­ter­i­als and ad­dit­ives in­ten­ded ex­clus­ively for these products, the body re­spons­ible for these products shall or­der the ne­ces­sary meas­ures. The par­ti­cip­a­tion of the FOEN is gov­erned by Art­icles 62a and 62b of the Fed­er­al Act of 21 March 1997¹¹⁴ on the Or­gan­isa­tion of the Gov­ern­ment and the Ad­min­is­tra­tion.