Legal bases
Federal Acts
Basis for appointing the SECB
- Art. 29g of the Federal Act on the Protection of the Environment (Environmental Protection Act, EPA)
- Art. 22 of the Federal Act on Non-Human Gene Technology (Gene Technology Act, GTA)
- Art. 57 of the Epidemics Act (EpidA) (in German)
Federal Ordinances
Regulating the tasks and organisation of the SECB
- Ordinance on the Swiss Expert Committee for Biosafety (in German)
- Ordinance on the organisation of the government and the administration (in German)
Putting the tasks of the SECB into more concrete terms
- Ordinance on Handling Organisms in Contained Systems (Containment Ordinance, ContainO)
- Ordinance on Handling Organisms in the Environment (Release Ordinance, RO)
- Ordinance on Protection of Employees from Dangerous Microorganisms (PEMO) (in German)
- Ordinance on Protection against Major Accidents (Major Accidents Ordinance, MAO)
- Ordinance on Clinical Trials in Human Research (Clinical Trials Ordinance, ClinO)
- Ordinance on Transplantation of Human Organs, Tissues and Cells (Transplantation Ordinance) (in German)
- Ordinance on Transplantation of Animal Organs, Tissues and Cells (Xenotransplantation Ordinance) (in German)