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

¹ The au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for the en­force­ment of this Or­din­ance shall treat in­form­a­tion as con­fid­en­tial where there is a le­git­im­ate and over­rid­ing in­terest in do­ing so. They clas­si­fy this in­form­a­tion as such when for­ward­ing it to oth­er au­thor­it­ies.

² There is a le­git­im­ate in­terest in par­tic­u­lar in pre­serving trade and man­u­fac­tur­ing secrecy.

³ Any per­son sub­mit­ting doc­u­ments to the au­thor­it­ies must:

a.

in­dic­ate the in­form­a­tion which is to be treated as con­fid­en­tial; and

b.

jus­ti­fy the need for con­fid­en­ti­al­ity.

⁴ An au­thor­ity that does not wish to ac­cede to a re­quest for con­fid­en­ti­al­ity shall in­vest­ig­ate wheth­er the grounds giv­en for con­fid­en­ti­al­ity are jus­ti­fi­able. If its as­sess­ment dif­fers from the pro­pos­al of the per­sons sup­ply­ing the in­form­a­tion, the au­thor­ity, after hear­ing these per­sons, shall in­form them in a rul­ing which in­form­a­tion they do not find worthy of pro­tec­tion.

⁵ The fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion shall al­ways be ac­cess­ible to the pub­lic:

a.

the name of the per­sons re­spons­ible for the activ­ity and for mon­it­or­ing bio­lo­gic­al safety;

b.

ad­dress of the es­tab­lish­ment and the in­stall­a­tion (loc­a­tion of the activ­ity);

c.

the type of in­stall­a­tion, safety meas­ures and waste dis­pos­al;

d.

a gen­er­al de­scrip­tion of the or­gan­isms and of their prop­er­ties;

e.

a gen­er­al de­scrip­tion of the activ­ity, and in par­tic­u­lar its pur­pose and its ap­prox­im­ate size (e.g. cul­ture volume);

f.

a sum­mary of the risk as­sess­ment;

g.

the class of the activ­ity.