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

¹ The com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies shall en­sure that dis­in­fec­tion and dis­in­fest­a­tion, in par­tic­u­lar of means of trans­port and goods, are car­ried out to pre­vent the spread of com­mu­nic­able dis­eases.

² Com­pan­ies that trans­port per­sons by rail, bus, ship or air, air­port op­er­at­ors, port op­er­at­ors, rail­way and bus sta­tions and travel busi­nesses are re­quired to co­oper­ate in car­ry­ing out dis­in­fec­tion and dis­in­fest­a­tion meas­ures.