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

¹ The spe­cial­ist agency ap­poin­ted by the can­ton must be in­formed im­me­di­ately in the event that, when hand­ling or­gan­isms in con­tained sys­tems:

a.

or­gan­isms that should have been pre­ven­ted from es­cap­ing in­to the en­vir­on­ment un­der Art­icle 12 para­graph 1 have done so;

b.

there was a genu­ine risk of or­gan­isms be­ing re­leased in­to the en­vir­on­ment in the course of activ­it­ies in Classes 3 and 4; or

c.²⁷

there is a strong sus­pi­cion of im­prop­er use.

² The can­tons shall in­form the com­pet­ent fed­er­al of­fice of any re­por­ted in­cid­ents.