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

¹ Medi­cin­al products which have been au­thor­ised, or which are not sub­ject to au­thor­isa­tion, may be im­por­ted.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may per­mit the im­port­ing of small quant­it­ies of non-au­thor­ised ready-to-use medi­cin­al products by:

a.

private in­di­vidu­als for their per­son­al use;

b.

med­ic­al pro­fes­sion­als.

^2bis It may al­low un­au­thor­ised, ready-to-use, non-pre­scrip­tion medi­cin­al products for which no al­tern­at­ive and equi­val­ent medi­cin­al product has been au­thor­ised to be im­por­ted in small quant­it­ies in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 25 para­graph 1 let­ters b and c with­in the lim­its of their dis­pens­ing au­thor­ity.⁷⁵

³ It may:

a.

stip­u­late that the li­cence to im­port cer­tain medi­cin­al products re­quir­ing a spe­cif­ic con­trol for the pro­tec­tion of health be gran­ted in par­tic­u­lar cases by the Agency;

b.

re­strict or pro­hib­it the im­port­ing of cer­tain medi­cin­al products if cir­cum­stances sug­gest that they could be in­ten­ded for il­leg­al pur­poses or mis­use.

⁴ The Agency shall draw up a list of medi­cin­al products for which im­ports shall be re­stric­ted or pro­hib­ited.