Federal Act
on Research involving Human Beings
(Human Research Act, HRA)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 30 September 2011 (Status as of 26 May 2021)


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Art. 53 Composition

1 Eth­ics com­mit­tees must be com­posed in such a way that they have the pro­fes­sion­al skills and ex­per­i­ence re­quired to dis­charge their du­ties. The mem­bers must in­clude:

a.
ex­perts in vari­ous dis­cip­lines, in par­tic­u­lar medi­cine, eth­ics and law; and
b.
at least one per­son rep­res­ent­ing pa­tients.14

2 Eth­ics com­mit­tees may call in ex­tern­al spe­cial­ists to serve as ex­perts.

3 The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall en­act ad­di­tion­al reg­u­la­tions con­cern­ing the com­pos­i­tion of eth­ics com­mit­tees and the re­quire­ments to be ful­filled by their mem­bers. In do­ing so, it shall have re­gard to re­cog­nised in­ter­na­tion­al reg­u­la­tions.

14 Amended by An­nex of the FA of 22 March 2019, in force since 26 May 2021 (AS 2020 2961; BBl 2019 1).

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