Ordinance
on Human Research with the Exception of Clinical Trials
(Human Research Ordinance, HRO)

¹ The per­sons con­cerned must re­ceive writ­ten or or­al in­form­a­tion on:

a.

the pro­posed fur­ther use of the coded bio­lo­gic­al ma­ter­i­al and coded ge­net­ic per­son­al data for re­search pur­poses;

b.

their right to with­hold or to re­voke their con­sent at any time without giv­ing reas­ons;

c.

meas­ures to pro­tect the bio­lo­gic­al ma­ter­i­al and per­son­al data, and in par­tic­u­lar man­age­ment of the key;

d.

the pos­sib­il­ity of the bio­lo­gic­al ma­ter­i­al and the ge­net­ic per­son­al data be­ing passed on to third parties for re­search pur­poses.

² Con­sent must be giv­en in writ­ing; the ex­cep­tions are gov­erned by Art­icle 9 mu­tatis mutandis.