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

¹ A spe­cial situ­ation arises if:

a.

the or­din­ary en­force­ment agen­cies are un­able to pre­vent or con­trol the out­break and spread of com­mu­nic­able dis­eases, and one of the fol­low­ing risks is present:

1.

a high risk of in­fec­tion and of spread,

2.

a spe­cial risk to pub­lic health,

3.

ser­i­ous con­sequences for the eco­nomy or for oth­er areas of life;

b.

the World Health Or­gan­iz­a­tion (WHO) has an­nounced a pub­lic health emer­gency of in­ter­na­tion­al con­cern and this emer­gency poses a risk to pub­lic health in Switzer­land.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may, after con­sult­ing the can­tons, or­der the fol­low­ing meas­ures:

a.

meas­ures in re­la­tion to in­di­vidu­al per­sons;

b.

meas­ures in re­la­tion to the pop­u­la­tion;

c.

a re­quire­ment for doc­tors and oth­er health­care spe­cial­ists to par­ti­cip­ate in com­bat­ing com­mu­nic­able dis­eases;

d.

man­dat­ory vac­cin­a­tions for pop­u­la­tion groups at high risk, for per­sons who are par­tic­u­larly ex­posed to in­fec­tion and for per­sons who carry out cer­tain activ­it­ies.

³ The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Home Af­fairs (FDHA) shall co­ordin­ate the meas­ures taken by the Con­fed­er­a­tion.