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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil and the Agency shall en­force this Act in­so­far as the Act states that the Con­fed­er­a­tion is com­pet­ent to do so. The Agency is the en­force­ment au­thor­ity for products spe­cified in Art­icle 2a. The FOPH is re­spons­ible for the en­force­ment of Chapter 4 Sec­tion 2a. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may del­eg­ate cer­tain of the Agency’s or the FOPH’s tasks to oth­er au­thor­it­ies.²²⁴

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall en­act the im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions un­less this Act states that the Agency is com­pet­ent to do so, or when it has not al­loc­ated the en­act­ment of pro­vi­sions of a tech­nic­al nature or of minor im­port­ance to the Agency.

³ In­so­far as cer­tain del­eg­ated acts and im­ple­ment­ing acts of the European Com­mis­sion in the area of med­ic­al devices con­cern tech­nic­al or ad­min­is­trat­ive de­tails that are reg­u­lated on an on­go­ing basis and gen­er­ally amended at short no­tice, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may de­term­ine that the rel­ev­ant acts in the ver­sion bind­ing for EU mem­ber states are also to be ap­plic­able in Switzer­land.²²⁵