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

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons shall es­tab­lish a body to pro­mote co­oper­a­tion (co­ordin­a­tion body). Sub­si­di­ary bod­ies may be es­tab­lished to deal with spe­cif­ic fields, in par­tic­u­lar de­tect­ing and mon­it­or­ing, pre­vent­ing and com­bat­ing zo­onoses.

² The co­ordin­a­tion body and its sub­si­di­ary bod­ies shall be made up of fed­er­al and can­ton­al rep­res­ent­at­ives. They may also in­clude oth­er spe­cial­ists, as re­quired.

³ Their tasks shall in­clude the fol­low­ing:

a.

co­ordin­at­ing meas­ures to pre­pare for situ­ations that pose a par­tic­u­lar risk to pub­lic health;

b.

co­ordin­at­ing meas­ures to de­tect, pre­vent and con­trol the dis­ease;

c.

en­cour­aging uni­form im­ple­ment­a­tion;

d.

co­ordin­at­ing the pro­vi­sion of in­form­a­tion and com­mu­nic­a­tion;

e.

sup­port­ing the Fed­er­al Task Force in man­aging spe­cial or ex­traordin­ary situ­ations.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the es­tab­lish­ment and man­age­ment of the co­ordin­a­tion body and its sub­si­di­ary bod­ies.