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

The Fed­er­al Coun­cil reg­u­lates the fol­low­ing for the An­ti­bi­ot­ics In­form­a­tion Sys­tem:

a.

the struc­ture and data cata­logue, in­clud­ing the part used by the can­tons;

b.

the re­spons­ib­il­it­ies for data pro­cessing;

c.

the ac­cess rights un­der Art­icle 64e, in par­tic­u­lar their scope;

d.

the or­gan­isa­tion­al and tech­nic­al meas­ures ne­ces­sary to en­sure data pro­tec­tion and data se­cur­ity;

e.

the co­oper­a­tion pro­ced­ure with the can­tons;

f.

stor­age and de­struc­tion peri­ods;

g.

archiv­ing;

h.

the re­port­ing ob­lig­a­tions of per­sons who mar­ket, pre­scribe, dis­pense and use an­ti­bi­ot­ics; live­stock hold­ers are ex­empt from the ob­lig­a­tion to re­port;

i.

ob­tain­ing data on the veter­in­ary pro­fes­sion from the Re­gister of Med­ic­al Pro­fes­sions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 51–54 of the Med­ic­al Pro­fes­sions Act of 23 June 2006¹⁶³.