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

¹ In or­der to im­ple­ment this Act, the FOPH and the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies may provide for­eign au­thor­it­ies that have cor­res­pond­ing tasks and supra­na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions with per­son­al data, in­clud­ing data on health, provided the state con­cerned and in par­tic­u­lar its le­gis­la­tion or the supra­na­tion­al or in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tion guar­an­tees an ap­pro­pri­ate level of pri­vacy pro­tec­tion for the per­son con­cerned:

a.

the le­gis­la­tion of the state con­cerned or the supra­na­tion­al or in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tion guar­an­tees an ap­pro­pri­ate level of data pro­tec­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 16 para­graph 1 FADP¹¹; or

b.

the per­son­al data are dis­closed with spe­cif­ic guar­an­tees in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 16 para­graph 2 let­ter c FADP.¹²

² In par­tic­u­lar the fol­low­ing data may be dis­closed:

a.

sur­name, first name, ad­dress, date of birth and oc­cu­pa­tion;

b.

de­tails of travel routes, places of stay and con­tacts with per­sons, an­im­als and ob­jects;

c.

res­ults of med­ic­al tests;

d.

res­ults of epi­demi­olo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions;

e.

de­tails of be­long­ing to a spe­cif­ic risk cat­egory;

f.

de­tails of meas­ures to pre­vent and com­bat a com­mu­nic­able dis­ease.

³ In derog­a­tion from para­graph 1, per­son­al data may only be dis­closed abroad if:¹³

a.¹⁴

...

b.

the per­son con­cerned has con­sen­ted in the giv­en case;

c.

dis­clos­ure in the giv­en case is es­sen­tial in or­der to safe­guard pub­lic health; or

d.¹⁵

dis­clos­ure in the giv­en case is re­quired to pro­tect the life or phys­ic­al in­teg­rity of the per­son con­cerned and it is not pos­sible to ob­tain con­sent from the per­son con­cerned with­in a reas­on­able time.