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

¹ The com­pet­ent fed­er­al of­fice veri­fies wheth­er the re­quire­ments of Art­icles 4–7 have been met. In do­ing so, it takes ac­count of any opin­ions from the spe­cial­ist agen­cies.

² The com­pet­ent fed­er­al of­fice may pro­hib­it the activ­ity en­tirely or in part if there is reas­on to as­sume that the re­quire­ments of Art­icles 4–7 have not been met. It com­mu­nic­ates its de­cision with­in 90 days of con­firm­a­tion of its com­plete­ness to the no­ti­fy­ing per­son, the spe­cial­ist agen­cies, and the Fed­er­al Co­ordin­a­tion Centre for Bi­o­tech­no­logy.

³ If the com­pet­ent fed­er­al of­fice fails to is­sue a de­cision with­in the said peri­od, Class 1 activ­it­ies sub­ject to no­ti­fic­a­tion and changes to Class 2 activ­it­ies of which the of­fice has already been no­ti­fied are deemed to be in com­pli­ance with this Or­din­ance, un­less this is con­tra­dicted by sub­stan­tial new find­ings.³³