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

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 9 May 2012 (Status as of 1 January 2020)


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Art. 13 Guarantee of liability

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. 59abis para. 1 EPA); and
b.
of 2 mil­lion francs to cov­er dam­age to the en­vir­on­ment (Art. 31 GTA, Art. 59abis 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.

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