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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall en­act the im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions.

² In do­ing so, it shall con­sider the dif­fer­ent ex­tents to which in­di­vidu­al re­search areas and meth­ods in­volve risks to dig­nity and pri­vacy, in par­tic­u­lar when spe­cify­ing:

a.

the sci­entif­ic re­quire­ments (Art. 10);

b.

any ex­emp­tions from li­ab­il­ity (Art. 19) and li­ab­il­ity cov­er­age re­quire­ments (Art. 20);

c.

the re­quire­ments for in­sur­ance and oth­er forms of cov­er­age (Art. 20);

d.

the pro­ced­ur­al re­quire­ments (Art. 49).