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

¹ As part of their stat­utory du­ties, the fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies may pro­cess data on­line in the An­ti­bi­ot­ics In­form­a­tion Sys­tem:

a.

the FS­VO: to com­pile an­ti­bi­ot­ics sales and con­sump­tion stat­ist­ics, to mon­it­or the an­ti­bi­ot­ic res­ist­ance situ­ation and to guar­an­tee the en­force­ment of the le­gis­la­tion;

b.

the can­ton­al en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies: to ful­fil their tasks in their re­spect­ive areas of re­spons­ib­il­ity.

² In or­der to ful­fil their stat­utory du­ties, the fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies or per­sons may re­trieve data on­line from the An­ti­bi­ot­ics In­form­a­tion Sys­tem:

a.

the FS­VO and the can­ton­al en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies: dis­tri­bu­tion, pre­scrip­tion, dis­pens­ing and ap­plic­a­tion data;

b.

the FS­VO: dis­tri­bu­tion, pre­scrip­tion, dis­pens­ing and ap­plic­a­tion data to ful­fil the tasks as­signed to it in ac­cord­ance with the Ag­ri­cul­ture Act of 29 April 1998¹⁶²;

c.

live­stock hold­ers: data con­cern­ing them­selves;

d.

veter­in­ari­ans and oth­er per­sons sub­ject to the ob­lig­a­tion to re­port un­der Art­icle 64flet­ter h: data con­cern­ing them and data which they have re­por­ted.