Ordinance
on Handling Organisms in Contained Systems
(Containment Ordinance, ContainO)

¹ Any per­son who car­ries out an activ­ity in con­tained sys­tems with ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied or patho­gen­ic or­gan­isms of Classes 3 or 4 must guar­an­tee leg­al li­ab­il­ity:

a.

of 20 mil­lion francs to cov­er dam­age to per­sons and prop­erty (Art. 30 GTA, Art. 59a^bis para. 1 EPA); and

b.

of 2 mil­lion francs to cov­er dam­age to the en­vir­on­ment (Art. 31 GTA, Art. 59a^bis para. 9 EPA).

² The ob­lig­a­tion to guar­an­tee li­ab­il­ity may be ful­filled:

a.

by ob­tain­ing li­ab­il­ity in­sur­ance from an in­sur­ance com­pany that is au­thor­ised to do busi­ness in Switzer­land;

b.

by provid­ing se­cur­ity of equi­val­ent value.

³ The fol­low­ing are ex­empt from this guar­an­tee of li­ab­il­ity:

a.

the Con­fed­er­a­tion, its pub­lic cor­por­a­tions and in­sti­tu­tions;

b.

the can­tons and their pub­lic cor­por­a­tions and in­sti­tu­tions, provided the can­tons cov­er their li­ab­il­it­ies.