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

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons shall take pre­par­at­ory meas­ures to lim­it the risks to and neg­at­ive ef­fects on pub­lic health at an early stage.

² The FOPH may in­struct the can­tons to take spe­cif­ic meas­ures in view of a spe­cial risk to pub­lic health, in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

meas­ures to de­tect and mon­it­or com­mu­nic­able dis­eases;

b.

meas­ures in re­la­tion to in­di­vidu­al per­sons;

c.

meas­ures in re­la­tion to the pop­u­la­tion;

d.

meas­ures to dis­trib­ute thera­peut­ic products.