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

¹ Fed­er­al Com­mis­sion for Vac­cin­a­tion shall ad­vise the Fed­er­al Coun­cil on is­su­ing reg­u­la­tions and the au­thor­it­ies on im­ple­ment­ing this Act.

² The Com­mis­sion's tasks shall in­clude the fol­low­ing:

a.

draw­ing up vac­cin­a­tion re­com­mend­a­tions for sub­mis­sion to the FOPH;

b.

de­vis­ing med­ic­al cri­ter­ia for as­sess­ing the sever­ity of a vac­cin­a­tion re­ac­tion;

c.

ad­vising the FDHA on mat­ters re­lated to com­pens­a­tion (Art. 64) or sat­is­fac­tion (Art. 65).

³ It shall com­prise spe­cial­ists from out­side the ad­min­is­tra­tion who have sci­entif­ic or prac­tic­al know­ledge of vac­cin­a­tion mat­ters.

⁴ It shall work with oth­er fed­er­al and can­ton­al bod­ies that deal with vac­cin­a­tion mat­ters.