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

¹ The fol­low­ing or­gan­isms must be handled only in con­tained sys­tems un­less they may be handled in the en­vir­on­ment in ac­cord­ance with the Re­lease Or­din­ance of 10 Septem­ber 2008,¹⁴ the Plant Pro­tec­tion Products Or­din­ance of 12 May 2010¹⁵ or the Biocid­al Products Or­din­ance of 18 May 2005¹⁶:

a.

ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied or­gan­isms;

b.

patho­gen­ic or­gan­isms;

c.¹⁷

or­gan­isms sub­ject to a con­tain­ment ob­lig­a­tion:

1.

ali­en small in­ver­teb­rates,

2.

in­vas­ive ali­en or­gan­isms as defined in An­nex 2 of the Re­lease Or­din­ance, and

3.

harm­ful or­gan­isms that are con­sidered par­tic­u­larly dan­ger­ous in ac­cord­ance with the Or­din­ance is­sued by the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs, Edu­ca­tion and Re­search and the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of the En­vir­on­ment, Trans­port, En­ergy and Com­mu­nic­a­tions based on Art­icles 4 para­graph 3, 24 para­graph 2 and 29 para­graph 2 of the Plant Health Or­din­ance of 31 Oc­to­ber 2018¹⁸, and or­gan­isms that are con­sidered po­ten­tial quar­ant­ine or­gan­isms in ac­cord­ance with the Or­din­ance is­sued by the Fed­er­al Of­fice for Ag­ri­cul­ture (FO­AG) and the Fed­er­al Of­fice for the En­vir­on­ment (FOEN) based on Art­icle 5 para­graph 2 of the Plant Health Or­din­ance.

² Any per­son who handles or­gan­isms in con­tained sys­tems must first de­term­ine and as­sess the risk of the oc­cur­rence of the or­gan­isms (al­loc­ate the or­gan­isms to a group) and there­after de­term­ine and as­sess the risk due to the planned activ­it­ies with the or­gan­isms (clas­si­fy the activ­it­ies).

³ Any per­son who handles ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied an­im­als and plants in con­tained sys­tems must first en­sure by weigh­ing the in­terests in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 8 GTA that the dig­nity of liv­ing be­ings is re­spec­ted.