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

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of 9 May 2012 (Status as of 1 January 2020)


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Art. 5 Containment obligation and prior assessments

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.

14 SR 814.911

15 SR 916.161

16 SR 813.12

17 Amended by An­nex 8 No 4 of the Plant Health Or­din­ance of 31 Oc­to­ber 2018, in force since 1 Jan. 2020 (AS 2018 4209).

18 SR 916.20

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