Commentaries: Art. 1

This Ordinance regulates:
1. the manufacture of medicinal products;
2. wholesale trading in medicinal products;
3. the import, export and transit trade in medicinal products;
4. trading in medicinal products in foreign countries from Switzerland;
5. the extracting of blood for transfusions or for the manufacture of medicinal products together with other essential elements of transfusion safety in handling blood and labile blood products;
6. brokerage or agency activities in connection with medicinal products;
7. temporary licences to use medicinal products in accordance with Article 9b paragraph 1 TPA.
With the exception of Articles 27, 28 and 47, this Ordinance applies by analogy to the handling of transplant products as described in Article 2 paragraph 1 letter c of the Transplantation Ordinance of 16 March 2007¹.
Articles 29–38 do not apply to transplant products described in Article 2 paragraph 1 letter c number 2 of the Transplantation Ordinance of 16 March 2007.

Art. 1