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SwitzerlandProposed measure, open for comments

Draft Amendment of the Chemicals Act

Switzerland notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 3 November 2026. Comments are open until 2 January 2027.

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At a glance

Products

LAC; GUMS, RESINS AND OTHER VEGETABLE SAPS AND EXTRACTS; INORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC OR INORGANIC COMPOUNDS OF PRECIOUS METALS, OF RARE-EARTH METALS, OF RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS OR OF ISOTOPES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS

HS codes
  • 13 · Lac; gums, resins and other vegetable saps and extracts
    • 13
  • 28 · Inorganic chemicals; organic and inorganic compounds of precious metals; of rare earth metals, of radio-active elements and of isotopes
    • 28 INORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC OR INORGANIC COMPOUNDS OF PRECIOUS METALS, OF RARE-EARTH METALS, OF RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS OR OF ISOTOPES
  • 29 · Organic chemicals
    • 29
  • 30 · Pharmaceutical products
    • 30
  • 31 · Fertilizers
    • 31 FERTILISERS
  • 38 · Chemical products n.e.c.
    • 38 MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL PRODUCTS
Notifying member
Switzerland
Status
Proposed measure, open for comments
Objectives
  • Protection of human health or safety
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/CHE/305

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Open until 2 January 2027
Proposed adoption
Proposed entry into force

How to comment

Comments on a notification go from government to government. If this measure affects your exports, send your comments to your country's WTO TBT enquiry point before 2 January 2027, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/CHE/305 and how the measure affects your products. Your enquiry point forwards them to Switzerland.

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What the notification says

The national poison center provides important services to the public and healthcare professionals in cases of poisoning. However, the center’s funding is not adequately regulated. The current Chemicals Act provides for the designation and financial support of a poison center by the federal government. It should be amended so that chemical manufacturers are required to operate and finance a central poison center. A similar obligation should also be imposed on authorization holders for medicinal products and enshrined in the Therapeutic Products Act. The government should continue to provide financial support to the poison center.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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