Federal Act
on Controlling Communicable Human Diseases
(Epidemics Act, EpidA)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 28 September 2012 (Status as of 18 December 2021)


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Art. 53 Chief medical officer

1 Each can­ton shall ap­point a chief med­ic­al of­ficer. Can­tons may ap­point a joint chief med­ic­al of­ficer.

2 Chief med­ic­al of­ficers shall co­ordin­ate their activ­it­ies with oth­er au­thor­it­ies and in­sti­tu­tions in­volved in con­trolling com­mu­nic­able dis­eases. If a com­mu­nic­able dis­ease arises in con­nec­tion with a food­stuff, the chief med­ic­al of­ficer shall no­ti­fy the can­ton­al chem­ist.

3 The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall spe­cify the re­quired qual­i­fic­a­tions for chief med­ic­al of­ficers.

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