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

¹ Any per­son who handles patho­gen­ic or­gan­isms that he may not re­lease for ex­per­i­ment­al pur­poses (Art. 29c) or put in­to cir­cu­la­tion for uses in the en­vir­on­ment (Art. 29d) must take all the con­tain­ment meas­ures re­quired, in par­tic­u­lar due to the risk that the or­gan­isms rep­res­ent to the en­vir­on­ment and to people.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall in­tro­duce a no­ti­fic­a­tion or au­thor­isa­tion ob­lig­a­tion for hand­ling of patho­gen­ic or­gan­isms.

³ For cer­tain patho­gen­ic or­gan­isms and activ­it­ies, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide for a sim­pli­fic­a­tion of the no­ti­fic­a­tion or au­thor­isa­tion ob­lig­a­tion or for ex­emp­tions if, in the light of cur­rent sci­entif­ic know­ledge or ex­per­i­ence, an in­fringe­ment of the prin­ciples con­tained in Art­icle 29a is ex­cluded.