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

¹ Where a patho­gen­ic or­gan­ism with the po­ten­tial to do con­sid­er­able harm nat­ur­ally oc­curs on a fre­quent basis, is re­leased in­ten­tion­ally or un­in­ten­tion­ally or if it is sus­pec­ted that it has been re­leased, its primary de­tec­tion may take place ex­cep­tion­ally out­side of con­tained sys­tems if:

a.

there is no threat to hu­mans, an­im­als, the en­vir­on­ment or bio­lo­gic­al di­versity;

b.

the ana­lyses are car­ried out in or­der help an as­sess­ment of the situ­ation;

c.

ap­pro­pri­ate se­cur­ity meas­ures are re­spec­ted; and

d.

the rap­id de­tec­tion sys­tems used can be shown to be re­li­able.

² De­tec­tion as defined in para­graph 1 is only per­miss­ible if car­ried out by em­ploy­ees of the fol­low­ing com­pet­ent au­thor­it­ies who pos­sess the re­quis­ite spe­cial­ist ex­pert­ise:

a.

the can­ton­al emer­gency ser­vices for B-in­cid­ents in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 3 let­ter e of the Or­din­ance of 29 April²⁰ on Mi­cro­bi­o­lo­gic­al Labor­at­or­ies;

b.

the com­pet­ent veter­in­ary au­thor­it­ies re­spons­ible for meas­ures to com­bat dis­ease in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 63 of the Epi­zo­ot­ic Dis­eases Or­din­ance of 27 June 1995²¹;

c.

the fed­er­al or can­ton­al plant pro­tec­tion ser­vices re­spons­ible for pre­vent­ive meas­ures in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 10, for mon­it­or­ing in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 18 and for sur­vey­ing in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 19 of the Plant Health Or­din­ance of 31 Oc­to­ber 2018²² (PHO);

d.

the es­tab­lish­ments au­thor­ised in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 76 PHO to con­duct as­sess­ments in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 84 PHO.