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

¹ Spe­cial know­ledge is re­quired by any­one who, in a com­mer­cial ca­pa­city:

a.

sup­plies sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions in Group 1 to per­sons who ob­tain them in or­der to use them pro­fes­sion­ally, but without pla­cing them on the mar­ket in a dif­fer­ent form;

b.

sup­plies sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions in Group 2 to private users.

² The FDHA may reg­u­late:

a.

how the know­ledge re­quire­ments are to be met; in this con­nec­tion, it shall take pro­fes­sion­al train­ing and ex­per­i­ence in­to ac­count;

b.

the con­tent, dur­a­tion and or­gan­isa­tion of courses for people seek­ing to ac­quire such know­ledge.

³ Art­icles 10 and 11 of the Chem­ic­al Risk Re­duc­tion Or­din­ance of 18 May 2005¹²⁰ (OR­RChem) ap­ply mu­tatis mutandis.

⁴ Para­graph 1 does not ap­ply to mo­tor fuels.