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

¹ If ad­di­tion­al in­form­a­tion must be sub­mit­ted in or­der to con­sider no­ti­fic­a­tions and au­thor­isa­tion ap­plic­a­tions, the stand­ard dead­lines in this Sec­tion are ex­ten­ded ac­cord­ingly.

² If the com­pet­ent fed­er­al of­fice is un­able to com­ply with the dead­line for is­su­ing a de­cision un­der this Sec­tion, it no­ti­fies the no­ti­fy­ing per­son or ap­plic­ant and the spe­cial­ist agen­cies be­fore ex­piry of the dead­line and in­forms them when the de­cision is to be ex­pec­ted.