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

¹ Any per­son who wil­fully com­mits any of the fol­low­ing acts shall be li­able to a fine:

a.

fail­ing to com­ply with the duty to re­port (Art. 12);

b.

con­duct­ing a mi­cro­bi­o­lo­gic­al test to de­tect com­mu­nic­able dis­eases without a li­cence (Art. 16);

c.

fail­ing to com­ply with the reg­u­la­tions on pre­vent­ing the trans­mis­sion of dis­eases (Art. 19);

d.

is­su­ing an in­ter­na­tion­al cer­ti­fic­ate of vac­cin­a­tion or of oth­er pro­phy­lax­is without a li­cence (Art. 23);

e.

fail­ing to com­ply with the duty of care when hand­ling patho­gens or their tox­ic products (Art. 25);

f.

fail­ing to com­ply with oth­er reg­u­la­tions on hand­ling patho­gens (Art. 29);

g.

fail­ing to com­ply with a med­ic­al mon­it­or­ing or­der (Art. 34);

h.

fail­ing to com­ply with a quar­ant­ine or isol­a­tion or­der (Art. 35);

i.

fail­ing to com­ply with a med­ic­al ex­am­in­a­tion or­der (Art. 36);

j.

fail­ing to com­ply with meas­ures in re­la­tion to the pop­u­la­tion (Art. 40);

k.

fail­ing to com­ply with reg­u­la­tions re­lat­ing to en­ter­ing or leav­ing Switzer­land (Art. 41);

l.

fail­ing to com­ply with ob­lig­a­tions to co­oper­ate (Arts 43, 47 para. 2 and 48 para. 2);

m.

fail­ing to com­ply with reg­u­la­tions on trans­port or on the im­port, ex­port and trans­it of goods (Art. 45);

n.²⁴

re­fus­ing to provide a per­son with a ser­vice that is offered to the pub­lic be­cause that per­son does not par­ti­cip­ate in the Prox­im­ity or the Pres­ence Tra­cing Sys­tem (Art. 60apara. 3).

² A per­son act­ing through neg­li­gence shall be li­able to a fine not ex­ceed­ing 5,000 francs for con­tra­ven­tions un­der para­graph 1.