Reproductive Medicine Ordinance
(RMO)

¹ With­in a year of grant­ing a li­cence, the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity shall ar­range for an in­spec­tion to be car­ried out by an ex­pert. There­after, an in­spec­tion shall be car­ried out as of­ten as ne­ces­sary, but at least once every three years.

² The su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity may con­sult an in­de­pend­ent ex­pert.

³ Per­sons charged with car­ry­ing out an in­spec­tion shall be gran­ted ac­cess at all times to the premises and fa­cil­it­ies used to per­form the activ­it­ies con­cerned.

³ If the labor­at­ory is ac­cred­ited un­der the Ac­cred­it­a­tion and Des­ig­na­tion Or­din­ance of 17 June 1996¹¹, the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity may dis­pense with all or part of the re­view of the qual­ity man­age­ment sys­tem.

⁴ The Swiss Ac­cred­it­a­tion Ser­vice shall no­ti­fy the su­per­vis­ory au­thor­ity with­in an ap­pro­pri­ate peri­od of ac­cred­it­a­tions that have been gran­ted or re­newed as well as of any that have been sus­pen­ded or re­voked.