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

¹ In or­der to de­term­ine the risk of an oc­cur­rence of or­gan­isms, the ex­tent and prob­ab­il­ity of harm­ful ef­fects to hu­man be­ings, an­im­als or the en­vir­on­ment and to bio­lo­gic­al di­versity and its sus­tain­able use must be es­tim­ated. In do­ing so, the cri­ter­ia in An­nex 2.1 num­ber 1 must be taken in­to ac­count.

² In or­der to as­sess the risks de­term­ined, the or­gan­isms must be al­loc­ated to one of the fol­low­ing groups ac­cord­ing to the cri­ter­ia in An­nex 2.1 num­ber 2:

a.

Group 1: or­gan­isms whose oc­cur­rence presents no risk or a neg­li­gible risk;

b.

Group 2: or­gan­isms whose oc­cur­rence presents a low risk;

c.

Group 3: or­gan­isms whose oc­cur­rence presents a mod­er­ate risk;

d.

Group 4: or­gan­isms whose oc­cur­rence presents a high risk.

³ If cer­tain or­gan­isms have already been grouped ac­cord­ing to the list in Art­icle 26, no new risk de­term­in­a­tion and as­sess­ment need be car­ried out un­less there are in­dic­a­tions of an in­creased or re­duced risk in an oc­cur­rence of these or­gan­isms. In the event of sig­ni­fic­ant new find­ings, the risk must be de­term­ined and as­sessed again.