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

¹ The Agency shall ac­com­plish the tasks as­signed to it un­der this Act and oth­er fed­er­al acts.¹⁸⁸

^1bis The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may, against pay­ment, del­eg­ate oth­er tasks to the Agency which are closely re­lated to the tasks as­signed to it by law and which do not im­pair its per­form­ance.¹⁸⁹

² The Agency may, in re­turn for pay­ment, provide ser­vices to oth­er au­thor­it­ies and in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions with­in the scope of its tasks un­der this Act, provided that such ser­vices do not jeop­ard­ise the in­de­pend­ence of the Agency.¹⁹⁰

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may ask the Agency to par­ti­cip­ate in the draft­ing of le­gis­la­tion in the thera­peut­ic products sec­tor.

⁴ The Agency is the na­tion­al cent­ral and con­tact point pur­su­ant to Art­icles 17 para­graph 3 and 22 para­graph 2 of the Coun­cil of Europe Con­ven­tion of 28 Oc­to­ber 2011¹⁹¹ on the coun­ter­feit­ing of med­ic­al products and sim­il­ar crimes in­volving threats to pub­lic health. It shall main­tain con­tacts with the des­ig­nated con­tact points in oth­er coun­tries.¹⁹²