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

¹ Any per­son trans­port­ing ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied or patho­gen­ic mi­croor­gan­isms must ob­serve the ap­plic­able na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al trans­port reg­u­la­tions, in par­tic­u­lar with re­gard to la­belling and pack­aging.

² In the case of trans­port in a man­ner not covered by para­graph 1 of ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied or patho­gen­ic or­gan­isms or ali­en or­gan­isms sub­ject to a con­tain­ment ob­lig­a­tion, it must be en­sured that any es­cape of or­gan­isms is either lim­ited or pre­ven­ted, de­pend­ing on the risk.

³ The dis­trib­ut­or must in­form the re­cip­i­ent of:

a.

the iden­tity and the quant­ity of the or­gan­isms;

b.

the prop­er­ties of the or­gan­isms, and in par­tic­u­lar wheth­er they are ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied, patho­gen­ic or ali­en or­gan­isms;

c.

that the or­gan­isms must be handled in con­tained sys­tems.