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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall ap­point the first ex­ec­ut­ive dir­ect­or of the Agency on the pro­pos­al of the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Home Af­fairs.

² The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of Home Af­fairs shall carry out the first ap­point­ment of the oth­er mem­bers of the man­age­ment. Their ap­point­ment shall be rat­i­fied by the Agency Coun­cil in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 72 para­graph 1 let­ter h with­in 18 months of the Agency com­men­cing its activ­ity.

³ The con­tract ser­vice con­di­tions of the staff trans­ferred to the Agency from the FOPH²⁶⁵ and the In­ter­can­t­on­al Of­fice for the Con­trol of Medi­cin­al Products shall be sub­ject to the con­di­tions of em­ploy­ment of the Agency from the time it com­mences its activ­ity.