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

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons may al­loc­ate an in­terest-free en­dow­ment fund to the Agency.

² The Agency shall fin­ance its ex­pendit­ure, in par­tic­u­lar, from:

a.²¹⁴

fed­er­al re­mu­ner­a­tion for tasks re­ferred to in Art­icle 69 para­graph 1, where these are not covered by charges and fees;

b.

charges and fees re­ferred to in Art­icle 65;

c.

charges for ser­vices provided to oth­er au­thor­it­ies and in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions re­ferred to in Art­icle 69 para­graph 2.

^2bis The fol­low­ing tasks and activ­it­ies of the Agency shall be fully fin­anced from fed­er­al re­mu­ner­a­tion:

a.

le­gis­la­tion;

b.

en­force­ment of crim­in­al pro­vi­sions;

c.

sur­veil­lance of med­ic­al devices.²¹⁵

³ The task-spe­cif­ic use of the funds re­ferred to in para­graph 2 let­ters a and b and the ad­just­ments to be made in the event of over- or un­der­fin­an­cing of the tasks and activ­it­ies re­ferred to in para­graph 2^bis shall be de­term­ined with­in the frame­work of the ap­prov­al of stra­tegic ob­ject­ives.²¹⁶

⁴The fines and in­come from sanc­tions shall go to the Con­fed­er­a­tion.