Federal Act
on Medicinal Products and Medical Devices
(Therapeutic Products Act, TPA)

¹ The Man­age­ment Board is the op­er­at­ive body of the Agency. It is headed by an ex­ec­ut­ive dir­ect­or.

² The Man­age­ment Board has the fol­low­ing du­ties:

a.

to con­duct busi­ness;

b.

to is­sue ad­min­is­trat­ive or­ders as provided for in the reg­u­la­tions of the or­gan­isa­tion;

c.

to pre­pare the basis for the de­cisions of the Agency Coun­cil and re­port to it reg­u­larly and without delay in the event of spe­cial in­cid­ents;

d.

to rep­res­ent the Agency in con­tacts with the out­side world;

e.

to is­sue the busi­ness plan and the budget and sub­mit the same to the Agency Coun­cil for ap­prov­al;

f.

to de­cide on es­tab­lish­ment, amend­ment and ter­min­a­tion of the em­ploy­ment re­la­tion­ship of Agency staff; the fore­go­ing is without pre­ju­dice to Art­icle 72a para­graph 1 let­ter h;

g.

to carry out the tasks not as­signed to any oth­er Agency body.