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

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall bear the cost of test­ing, mon­it­or­ing, quar­ant­ine, isol­a­tion and treat­ment ordered by its bod­ies for pas­sen­gers on in­ter­na­tion­al trans­port ser­vices, as well as the costs in­curred as a res­ult of the duty to co­oper­ate un­der Art­icle 43 para­graph 1 let­ters b, d and e.

² Com­pan­ies that trans­port per­sons in­ter­na­tion­ally by rail, bus, ship or air, air­port op­er­at­ors, port op­er­at­ors, rail­way sta­tions and bus sta­tions and travel busi­nesses shall bear the costs in­curred for pre­par­a­tions made un­der Art­icle 42 and as a res­ult of the duty to co­oper­ate un­der Art­icle 43 para­graph 1 let­ters a and c. The Con­fed­er­a­tion may con­trib­ute to ex­cep­tion­al out­lays and ex­pendit­ures if these place the com­pan­ies con­cerned un­der an un­reas­on­able fin­an­cial bur­den.