Federal Act
on the Protection of the Environment
(Environmental Protection Act, EPA)

¹ Or­gan­isms may not be put in­to cir­cu­la­tion for uses in which the prin­ciples con­tained in Art­icle 29a are in­fringed des­pite their be­ing handled in ac­cord­ance with the rel­ev­ant pro­vi­sions.

² The man­u­fac­turer or im­port­er car­ries out its own self-reg­u­la­tion for this pur­pose. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil en­acts reg­u­la­tions on the nature, ex­tent and su­per­vi­sion of the self-reg­u­la­tion.

³ Patho­gen­ic or­gan­isms may be put in­to cir­cu­la­tion for uses in the en­vir­on­ment only with the au­thor­isa­tion of the Con­fed­er­a­tion.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­term­ines the re­quire­ments and the pro­ced­ure and reg­u­lates the in­form­a­tion provided to the gen­er­al pub­lic. For cer­tain patho­gen­ic or­gan­isms, it may provide for a sim­pli­fic­a­tion of the au­thor­isa­tion ob­lig­a­tion or for ex­emp­tions if, in the light of cur­rent sci­entif­ic know­ledge or ex­per­i­ence, an in­fringe­ment of prin­ciples con­tained in Art­icle 29a is ex­cluded.