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

¹ Sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions may be sup­plied to third parties with the pre­vi­ous la­belling un­til 31 Decem­ber 2025.

² If a man­u­fac­turer in­tends to con­duct tests on ver­teb­rates, it must by 31 Oc­to­ber 2023 com­ply with the ad­vance en­quiry ob­lig­a­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 31 para­graphs 1 and 2 for any sub­stance that was placed on the mar­ket be­fore this amend­ment comes in­to force and which is now sub­ject to the no­ti­fic­a­tion ob­lig­a­tion. If it com­plies with this ob­lig­a­tion, it may con­tin­ue to place the sub­stance on the mar­ket without no­ti­fic­a­tion un­til 30 April 2027. The No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity may ex­tend the peri­od by a max­im­um of two years. If two or more man­u­fac­tur­ers in­tend to give no­ti­fic­a­tion of the same sub­stance, the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity shall in­form the man­u­fac­tur­ers of this im­me­di­ately on ex­piry of the dead­line for the ad­vance en­quiry. Art­icle 31 para­graph 4 ap­plies by ana­logy.

³ New sub­stances for which no­ti­fic­a­tion was not giv­en be­fore this amend­ment comes in­to force and which do not fall un­der para­graph 2 may con­tin­ue to be placed on the mar­ket without no­ti­fic­a­tion un­til 30 April 2024. The No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity may ex­tend the peri­od by a max­im­um of one year.

⁴ The fol­low­ing ap­plies to ex­ist­ing sub­stances for which no­ti­fic­a­tion was giv­en be­fore this amend­ment comes in­to force:¹⁶⁴

a.¹⁶⁵

The no­ti­fi­er is not bound by the ob­lig­a­tions in Art­icles 46 and 47, and the ex­clus­ive rep­res­ent­at­ive and the im­port­er are not bound by ob­lig­a­tion in Art­icle 46.

b.

The ex­emp­tion in Art­icle 54 para­graph 1 let­ter k does not ap­ply.