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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall in con­sulta­tion with the can­tons de­term­ine the goals and strategies for de­tect­ing, mon­it­or­ing, pre­vent­ing and con­trolling com­mu­nic­able dis­eases.

² The fol­low­ing in par­tic­u­lar must be taken in­to con­sid­er­a­tion in de­term­in­ing the goals and strategies:

a.

the find­ings of the re­ports un­der Art­icle 76;

b.

in­ter­na­tion­al re­com­mend­a­tions and guidelines;

c.

the cur­rent state of sci­entif­ic know­ledge.

³ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons shall, based on the re­ports, re­view wheth­er the goals have been achieved, and take the rel­ev­ant meas­ures as re­quired.