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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may enter in­to in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments on:

a.

the ex­change of data used for epi­demi­olo­gic­al mon­it­or­ing;

b.

the mu­tu­al pro­vi­sion of in­form­a­tion on the out­break and spread of com­mu­nic­able dis­eases;

c.

im­me­di­ate no­ti­fic­a­tion where there is an im­min­ent risk of com­mu­nic­able dis­eases cross­ing the na­tion­al bor­der;

d.

the har­mon­isa­tion of meas­ures for de­tect­ing, mon­it­or­ing, pre­vent­ing and con­trolling com­mu­nic­able dis­eases;

e.

the trans­port of dead bod­ies bey­ond the na­tion­al bor­der;

f.²¹

…

² The com­pet­ent fed­er­al agen­cies shall work with for­eign au­thor­it­ies and in­sti­tu­tions and with in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions.

³ The FOPH shall carry out the tasks of the Na­tion­al IHR Fo­cal Point in ac­cord­ance with the In­ter­na­tion­al Health Reg­u­la­tions (2005) of 23 May 2005²². In par­tic­u­lar, it shall re­port events to the WHO that could lead to a pub­lic health emer­gency of in­ter­na­tion­al con­cern.