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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may in­tro­duce a re­gis­tra­tion or li­cens­ing ob­lig­a­tion for vac­cin­a­tions for which an in­ter­na­tion­al cer­ti­fic­ate of vac­cin­a­tion or oth­er pro­phy­lax­is un­der Art­icle 36 of the In­ter­na­tion­al Health Reg­u­la­tions (2005) of 23 May 2005⁴ is re­quired.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall carry out the fol­low­ing tasks:

a.

des­ig­nat­ing the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity;

b.

reg­u­lat­ing the re­quire­ments and the pro­ced­ure for grant­ing li­cences;

c.

in­dic­at­ing the vac­cin­a­tion pro­ced­ure and the per­mit­ted vac­cines.