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

¹ Li­cences un­der Art­icles 5 para­graph 1^bis, 29a para­graph 1 and 29c para­graph 2 of the Epi­dem­ics Act of 18 Decem­ber 1970²⁹ re­main val­id un­til their ex­piry date or for for five years after this Act comes in­to force, whichever is earli­er.

² Re­cog­ni­tions un­der Art­icle 5 para­graph 1 of the Epi­dem­ics Act of 18 Decem­ber 1970 re­main val­id un­til their ex­piry date or for five years after this Act comes in­to force, whichever is earli­er.

³ Labor­at­or­ies that did not re­quire a li­cence and did not have val­id re­cog­ni­tion be­fore this Act came in­to force, but which re­quire a li­cence after this Act comes in­to force, must ap­ply for the li­cence with­in one year after this Act comes in­to force. They may con­tin­ue to con­duct tests un­til the com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­ity is­sues its de­cision on the li­cence.