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

¹ In­so­far as is re­quired in or­der to identi­fy per­sons who are ill, sus­pec­ted of be­ing ill, in­fec­ted, sus­pec­ted of be­ing in­fec­ted and per­sons sus­pec­ted of spread­ing patho­gens, the FOPH, the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies and the pub­lic and private in­sti­tu­tions en­trus­ted with tasks un­der this Act may pro­cess or ar­range for the pro­cessing of per­son­al data, in­clud­ing health data, with a view to tak­ing meas­ures to pro­tect pub­lic health, in par­tic­u­lar to de­tect, mon­it­or and con­trol com­mu­nic­able dis­eases.

² They shall be re­spons­ible for com­ply­ing with the data pro­tec­tion reg­u­la­tions.

³ The data may be re­tained for a max­im­um of ten years, un­less the spe­cif­ics of the dis­ease re­quire a longer re­ten­tion peri­od. There­after they shall be des­troyed or an­onymised.