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

¹ Un­less a more ser­i­ous of­fence un­der the Swiss Crim­in­al Code²³ has been com­mit­ted, any per­son who wil­fully com­mits any of the fol­low­ing acts shall be li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty:

a.

fail­ing to take the re­quired con­tain­ment meas­ures when work­ing with dan­ger­ous patho­gens in con­tained sys­tems (Art. 26);

b.

re­leas­ing or mar­ket­ing patho­gens for ex­per­i­ment­al pur­poses without a li­cence (Art. 27);

c.

mar­ket­ing patho­gens without duly in­form­ing cus­tom­ers about their health-re­lated prop­er­ties and risks and about the re­quired pre­cau­tion­ary and pre­vent­ive meas­ures (Art. 28);

d.

breach­ing re­stric­tions on cer­tain activ­it­ies or the prac­tice of a pro­fes­sion (Art. 38).

² A per­son act­ing through neg­li­gence shall be li­able to a mon­et­ary pen­alty for mis­de­mean­ours un­der para­graph 1.