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

¹ This Act has the aim of pre­vent­ing and con­trolling the out­break and spread of com­mu­nic­able dis­eases.

² The meas­ures un­der this Act are in­ten­ded to en­able:

a.

com­mu­nic­able dis­eases to be mon­itored and ba­sic know­ledge about their spread and de­vel­op­ment to be made avail­able;

b.

the dangers of the out­break and spread of com­mu­nic­able dis­eases to be re­cog­nised, as­sessed and avoided at an early stage;

c.

in­di­vidu­al per­sons, spe­cif­ic groups of per­sons and in­sti­tu­tions to con­trib­ute to pre­vent­ing and con­trolling com­mu­nic­able dis­eases;

d.

the or­gan­isa­tion­al, tech­nic­al and fin­an­cial re­quire­ments for de­tect­ing, mon­it­or­ing, pre­vent­ing and con­trolling com­mu­nic­able dis­eases to be cre­ated;

e.

ac­cess to fa­cil­it­ies and re­sources for pro­tec­tion against trans­mis­sion to be en­sured;

f.

the ef­fects of com­mu­nic­able dis­eases on so­ci­ety and the per­sons af­fected to be re­duced.