Swiss Criminal Code

¹Any per­son who wil­fully re­leases ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied or patho­gen­ic or­gan­isms or the dis­rupts the op­er­a­tion of a fa­cil­ity for the re­search in­to, or the safe­guard­ing, pro­duc­tion or trans­port of such or­gan­isms is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing ten years, provided he knows or must as­sume that through his acts:

a.

he will en­danger the life and limb of people; or

b.

the nat­ur­al com­pos­i­tion of com­munit­ies of an­im­als and plants or their hab­it­ats will be ser­i­ously en­dangered.

²If the of­fend­er acts through neg­li­gence, he is li­able to a cus­todi­al sen­tence not ex­ceed­ing three years or to a mon­et­ary pen­alty.