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

¹ Man­u­fac­tur­ers of a new sub­stance or their ex­clus­ive rep­res­ent­at­ive must no­ti­fy the new sub­stance to the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity be­fore pla­cing it on the mar­ket for the first time:

a.

on its own;

b.

in a pre­par­a­tion; or

c.

in an ob­ject from which the new sub­stance may be re­leased un­der nor­mal or reas­on­ably fore­see­able con­di­tions of use.

² If a new sub­stance is con­tained in a poly­mer as a monomer or as an­oth­er sub­stance in the form of monomer units or chem­ic­ally bound, para­graph 1 ap­plies for the sub­stance on its own.

³ The No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity may re­quire the no­ti­fic­a­tion of a sub­stance con­tained in an ob­ject if it has reas­on to be­lieve that the sub­stance may be re­leased when the ob­ject is used.