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

¹ Activ­it­ies that are au­thor­ised in the prop­er man­ner when this Or­din­ance comes in­to force may be con­tin­ued un­til ex­piry of au­thor­isa­tion in ac­cord­ance with the pre­vi­ous law.

² Activ­it­ies that have been prop­erly no­ti­fied be­fore this Or­din­ance comes in­to force must with­in five years of this Or­din­ance com­ing in­to force be re­viewed by the no­ti­fy­ing per­son to veri­fy com­pli­ance here­with. If changes to the activ­ity or the safety meas­ures are re­quired due to this Or­din­ance, they must be no­ti­fied with­in the same five-year dead­line.

³ No­ti­fic­a­tion of pre­vi­ous activ­it­ies with ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied or­gan­isms in Class 1 must be re­placed with­in one year of this Or­din­ance com­ing in­to force by a glob­al no­ti­fic­a­tion un­der Art­icle 8.

⁴ Activ­it­ies with ali­en or­gan­isms sub­ject to a con­tain­ment ob­lig­a­tion may only be car­ried out without a no­ti­fic­a­tion or an au­thor­isa­tion ap­plic­a­tion for one year from the date on which this Or­din­ance comes in­to force.