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

¹ Com­pan­ies that trans­port per­sons by rail, bus, ship or air in­ter­na­tion­ally, air­port op­er­at­ors, port op­er­at­ors, rail­way and bus sta­tions and travel busi­nesses are re­quired to co­oper­ate in car­ry­ing out the meas­ures un­der Art­icle 41. They may with­in the lim­its of their op­er­a­tion­al and tech­nic­al ca­pa­cit­ies be re­quired:

a.

to in­form trav­el­lers about the dangers of com­mu­nic­able dis­eases and the op­tions for pre­vent­ing and con­trolling such dis­eases;

b.

to col­lect the in­form­a­tion re­quired for the iden­ti­fic­a­tion or early de­tec­tion of per­sons who are ill, sus­pec­ted of be­ing ill, in­fec­ted or sus­pec­ted of be­ing ill and per­sons sus­pec­ted of spread­ing patho­gens;

c.

to provide the com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies with lists of pas­sen­gers or goods;

d.

to en­able pas­sen­gers to un­der­go med­ic­al tests;

e.

to en­able the trans­port of per­sons who are ill, sus­pec­ted of be­ing ill, in­fec­ted, sus­pec­ted of be­ing in­fec­ted or who are spread­ing patho­gens to a hos­pit­al or oth­er suit­able in­sti­tu­tion.

² They must provide the op­er­a­tion­al and staff ca­pa­cit­ies ne­ces­sary to carry out the meas­ures un­der para­graph 1.