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

¹ Labor­at­or­ies that con­duct mi­cro­bi­o­lo­gic­al tests for de­tect­ing com­mu­nic­able dis­eases re­quire a li­cence from the com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­ity.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall carry out the fol­low­ing tasks:

a.

des­ig­nat­ing the com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­ity.

b.

reg­u­lat­ing the re­quire­ments and pro­ced­ure for grant­ing the li­cence.

c.

spe­cify­ing the li­cence hold­er's ob­lig­a­tions.

d.

reg­u­lat­ing su­per­vi­sion and in par­tic­u­lar provide for the pos­sib­il­ity of un­an­nounced in­spec­tions.

³ Labor­at­or­ies in doc­tors’ prac­tices, hos­pit­al labor­at­or­ies, phar­macy dis­pens­ar­ies and oth­er labor­at­or­ies that con­duct ana­lyses as part of the uni­ver­sal pro­vi­sion of ser­vices un­der the Fed­er­al Act of 18 March 1994³ on Health In­sur­ance (Health In­sur­ance Act) are ex­emp­ted from the li­cence re­quire­ment.