Ordinance
on the Placing on the Market and Handling of Biocidal Products
(Ordinance on Biocidal Products, OBP)

¹ The la­bel must not be mis­lead­ing in re­spect of the risks from the biocid­al product to hu­man health, an­im­al health or the en­vir­on­ment or its ef­fic­acy. It must not, in any case, men­tion the in­dic­a­tions «low-risk biocid­al product», «non-tox­ic», «harm­less», «nat­ur­al», «en­vir­on­ment­ally friendly», «an­im­al friendly» or sim­il­ar in­dic­a­tions.

² Biocid­al products and act­ive sub­stances for use in biocid­al products must be la­belled:¹⁸⁶

a.

in ac­cord­ance with the sum­mary of the biocid­al product char­ac­ter­ist­ics re­ferred to in Art­icle 20 para­graph 2 let­ter b; and

b.

in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 10 and 93 para­graph 1 let­ter b of the ChemO¹⁸⁷ mu­tatis mutandis; where the ChemO refers:¹⁸⁸

1.

to the man­u­fac­turer, this shall be un­der­stood for the pur­poses of this Or­din­ance as the au­thor­isa­tion hold­er,

2.

to dan­ger­ous sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions, this shall be un­der­stood for the pur­poses of this Or­din­ance as all biocid­al products and act­ive sub­stances for use in biocid­al products.

³ In ad­di­tion to the de­tails spe­cified in para­graph 2, the fol­low­ing must be in­dic­ated on the la­bel:¹⁸⁹

a.

the iden­tity of every act­ive sub­stance and its con­cen­tra­tion in met­ric units;

b.

the Swiss au­thor­isa­tion num­ber;

c.¹⁹⁰

the type of for­mu­la­tion;

d.

the uses for which the biocid­al product is au­thor­ised;

e.

dir­ec­tions for use; in par­tic­u­lar, for each use provided for un­der the terms of the rul­ing, the fol­low­ing are to be spe­cified:

1.

the fre­quency of ap­plic­a­tion,

2.

the dose rate, ex­pressed in met­ric units, in a man­ner which is mean­ing­ful and com­pre­hens­ible to the user;

f.

par­tic­u­lars of likely dir­ect or in­dir­ect ad­verse side ef­fects and any dir­ec­tions for first aid;

g.

the nan­o­ma­ter­i­als con­tained in the product, if any, and any spe­cif­ic re­lated risks, and, fol­low­ing each ref­er­ence to nan­o­ma­ter­i­als, the word «nano» in brack­ets;

h.

if ac­com­pan­ied by a leaf­let: the sen­tence «Read at­tached in­struc­tions be­fore use» and, where ap­plic­able, warn­ings for vul­ner­able groups;

i.

dir­ec­tions for the safe dis­pos­al of the biocid­al product and its pack­aging, in­clud­ing, where rel­ev­ant, any pro­hib­i­tion on the re­use of pack­aging;

j.

the for­mu­la­tion batch num­ber or des­ig­na­tion;

k.

the ex­piry date rel­ev­ant to nor­mal con­di­tions of stor­age;

l.

where ap­plic­able, the fol­low­ing de­tails:

1.

the time to on­set of the biocid­al ef­fect,

2.

the in­ter­val to be ob­served between ap­plic­a­tions of the biocid­al product,

3.

the in­ter­val to be ob­served between ap­plic­a­tion and the next use of the product treated, or the next ac­cess by hu­mans or an­im­als to the area where the biocid­al product has been used, in­clud­ing par­tic­u­lars con­cern­ing:

–

de­con­tam­in­a­tion means and meas­ures and dur­a­tion of ne­ces­sary vent­il­a­tion of treated areas

–

ad­equate clean­ing of equip­ment

–

pre­cau­tion­ary meas­ures dur­ing use and trans­port.

⁴ Where ap­plic­able, the fol­low­ing must also be in­dic­ated:

a.

the cat­egor­ies of users;

b.

in­form­a­tion on any spe­cif­ic danger to the en­vir­on­ment, par­tic­u­larly con­cern­ing pro­tec­tion of non-tar­get or­gan­isms and avoid­ance of con­tam­in­a­tion of wa­ter;

c.

for biocid­al products con­sist­ing of or con­tain­ing mi­croor­gan­isms: la­belling re­quire­ments in ac­cord­ance with Dir­ect­ive 2000/54/EC¹⁹¹.

⁵ Where this is ne­ces­sary be­cause of the size or the func­tion of the biocid­al product, the in­form­a­tion spe­cified in para­graph 3 let­ters c, e, f and i–l and para­graph 4 let­ter b must be in­dic­ated as fol­lows:

a.

on the pack­aging; or

b.

in an ac­com­pa­ny­ing leaf­let con­tained in the pack­aging.¹⁹²

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