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

¹ The Agency shall cat­egor­ise each medi­cin­al product for which it has gran­ted a mar­ket­ing au­thor­isa­tion in ac­cord­ance with the cri­ter­ia laid down by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil. It shall take in­to ac­count the pro­fes­sion­al com­pet­ence of the pro­fes­sion­al groups en­titled to dis­pense medi­cin­al products.

² It shall re­view the cat­egor­isa­tion of medi­cin­al products peri­od­ic­ally or at the re­quest of the hold­er of the mar­ket­ing au­thor­isa­tion and ad­apt it to the state of the art in sci­ence and tech­no­logy.