Chapter 4: Responsibilities of the Authorities
Section 1: Experimental Releases
< Art. 36 Application documents, publication and public information
> Art. 38 Issue of a licence
Art. 37 Examination of the application, involvement of the specialist agencies
1 The FOEN shall examine the application. Concomitantly with announcement of the receipt of the application in the Federal Gazette, the FOEN shall forward the application to the following other authorities, who shall evaluate it in their field of responsibility and state their position within 50 days:
- a.
- the FOPH, FVO and FOAG;
- b.
- the Federal Expert Committee for Biosafety (FECB) and the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-human Biotechnology (ECNH);
- c.
- the designated authority of the canton in question for information about local features.
2 The FOEN shall supply the specialist agencies with the submissions in accordance with Article 36 paragraphs 3 and 4.
3 It shall supply the specialist agencies’ statements to the parties for their comments and the specialist agencies reciprocally for their information.
4 If the examination shows that the documents submitted are insufficient for assessing the application, the FOEN shall request additional documents from the applicant, stating the reasons therefor, and request comments on them from the parties and the specialist agencies. In this case the deadline shall be extended accordingly.
5 On request, it shall inform the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (seco) and the Swiss Accident Insurance Organisation (SUVA) of the application.
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