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

¹ Any per­son who wishes for ex­per­i­ment­al pur­poses to re­lease patho­gen­ic or­gan­isms that may not be put in­to cir­cu­la­tion for uses in the en­vir­on­ment (Art. 29d) re­quires the au­thor­isa­tion of the Con­fed­er­a­tion.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­term­ines the re­quire­ments and the pro­ced­ure. It reg­u­lates in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the con­sulta­tion with spe­cial­ists;

b.

the fin­an­cial guar­an­tee for meas­ures by which any ef­fects caus­ing dam­age or nuis­ance may be de­tec­ted, aver­ted or elim­in­ated;

c.

the in­form­a­tion provided to the gen­er­al pub­lic.

³ 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 the prin­ciples con­tained in Art­icle 29a is ex­cluded.