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

¹ The en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies shall treat data as con­fid­en­tial when an in­terest in its con­fid­en­ti­al­ity is worthy of pro­tec­tion, un­less there is an over­rid­ing pub­lic in­terest in its dis­clos­ure.

² The No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity shall des­ig­nate the con­fid­en­tial data in con­sulta­tion with the as­sess­ment au­thor­it­ies. It shall do so be­fore passing it on to the com­pet­ent can­ton­al or fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies spe­cified in Art­icle 75 para­graph 2.

³ In par­tic­u­lar, shall be deemed worthy of pro­tec­tion the in­terest in main­tain­ing com­mer­cial/man­u­fac­tur­ing secrecy, in­clud­ing:

a.

in­form­a­tion on the iden­tity of in­ter­me­di­ates;

b.

the com­plete com­pos­i­tion of a pre­par­a­tion;

c.

the quant­it­ies of a sub­stance of a pre­par­a­tion placed on the mar­ket;

d.

the in­form­a­tion on nan­o­ma­ter­i­als re­ferred to in Art­icle 49 para­graph 1¹²⁸ let­ter c, 7 and let­ter d, 7.¹²⁹

⁴ If the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity dis­cov­ers that data deemed to be con­fid­en­tial has sub­sequently been law­fully dis­closed, this data shall no longer be treated as con­fid­en­tial.

⁵ The fol­low­ing are not deemed con­fid­en­tial un­der any cir­cum­stances:

a.

the trade name;

b.

the name and ad­dress of the per­son sub­ject to no­ti­fic­a­tion, de­clar­a­tion or re­port­ing re­quire­ments;

c.

the physi­co­chem­ic­al prop­er­ties;

d.

pro­ced­ures for prop­er dis­pos­al, for pos­sible re­cyc­ling or re­use, and for oth­er ways of ren­der­ing ma­ter­i­als harm­less;

e.

the sum­mary of res­ults of tox­ic­o­lo­gic­al and eco­tox­ic­o­lo­gic­al tests;

f.

the de­gree of pur­ity of a sub­stance and the iden­tity of the im­pur­it­ies and ad­dit­ives that are rel­ev­ant for clas­si­fic­a­tion;

g.

re­com­mend­a­tions re­gard­ing pre­cau­tions dur­ing use and emer­gency meas­ures in the event of an ac­ci­dent;

h.¹³⁰

in­form­a­tion that ap­pears in the safety data sheet, with the ex­cep­tion of the iden­tity of in­ter­me­di­ates;

i.

suit­able ana­lyt­ic­al meth­ods for de­term­in­ing the ex­pos­ure of hu­man be­ings and pres­ence in the en­vir­on­ment.

⁶ The No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity and as­sess­ment au­thor­it­ies may pub­lish data in the re­gister of products which is not deemed con­fid­en­tial un­der any cir­cum­stances.