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

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

a.¹⁰⁵

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.¹⁰⁶

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

b^bis.¹⁰⁷ sub­stances that are placed on the mar­ket solely for train­ing pur­poses;

c.

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

d.¹⁰⁸

…

e.

ex­plos­ives and pyro­tech­nic devices which re­quire au­thor­isa­tion un­der the Ex­plos­ives Or­din­ance of 27 Novem­ber 2000¹⁰⁹;

f.

sub­stances ob­tained in Switzer­land;

g.

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

1.¹¹⁰

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;

h^bis.¹¹¹

gases and gas mix­tures that are clas­si­fied in the «gases un­der pres­sure» haz­ard cat­egory;

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.¹¹²

sub­stances no­ti­fied by the man­u­fac­turer in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 24;

l.¹¹³

paints for­mu­lated on de­mand in lim­ited quant­it­ies for an in­di­vidu­al con­sumer or pro­fes­sion­al user at the point of sale by tint­ing or mix­ing col­ours, provided that:

1.

the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 25 para­graph 8 of the CLP Reg­u­la­tion¹¹⁴ are com­plied with, or

2.

the po­ten­tially haz­ard­ous col­or­ants are in­dic­ated in the no­ti­fic­a­tion of the base col­our in the max­im­um con­cen­tra­tion in which they are ad­ded; in this case, the product must be la­belled with the UFI of the base col­our;

m.¹¹⁵

fresh and ready-mix con­crete, plaster and ce­ment that cor­res­pond to the stand­ard for­mu­la­tions in An­nex VIII Part D of the CLP Reg­u­la­tion and that bear the UFI re­quired by the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity.

² Not ex­emp­ted from the re­port­ing re­quire­ments of this chapter are:

a.

in­ter­me­di­ates in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ter a in the form of monomers that are new sub­stances;

b.

pre­par­a­tions in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ters b, c, h, i and j that have a UFI.¹¹⁶