Commentaries: Art. 50

Biocidal products must not be promoted unless they:
1. are authorised; or
2. are placed on the market or used in accordance with Article 3 paragraph 3 letter a or b.
Article 38 paragraph 1 appliesmutatis mutandis to advertising.
Any advertisement for biocidal products must include the following phrases, which shall be clearly distinguishable and legible in relation to the whole advertisement:
1. «Use biocides safely»; the word «biocides» may be replaced with a reference to the product type according to Annex 10;
2. «Always read the label and product information before use».
Anyone who advertises dangerous biocidal products which the general public can purchase without seeing the labelling beforehand must indicate their hazardous properties in a comprehensible and clearly legible or audible manner.
Otherwise, Article 60 and, for samples, Article 68 of the ChemO^¹^applymutatis mutandis .²

[AS 2005 2721; 2007 821; 2009 401,805; 2010 5223; 2011 5227; 2012 6103,6659; 2013 201,2673,3041No I 3; 2014 2073Annex 11 No 1,3857.AS 2015 1903Art. 91]. See now: the O of 5 June 2015 (SR 813.11 ). ↩
Amended by No I of the O of 5 June 2015, in force since 1 July 2015 (AS 2015 1985). ↩

Art. 50