Commentaries: Art. 44

The Federal Council shall ensure that the population is supplied with the most important therapeutic products that are suitable for controlling communicable diseases, insofar as it is unable to guarantee supply by means of measures under the National Economic Supply Act of 8 October 1982¹.
It may issue regulations on:
1. allocating therapeutic products;
2. distributing therapeutic products;
3. facilitating the import and restricting or prohibiting the export of therapeutic products, provided this is necessary in order to avert a public health risk;
4. maintaining stocks of therapeutic products in hospitals and other healthcare institutions.
It may provide for measures to supply Swiss citizens living abroad with therapeutic products.

[AS 1983 931; 1992 288Annex No 24; 1995 1018,1794; 1996 3371Annex 2 No 1; 2001 1439; 2006 2197Annex No 48; 2010 1881Annex 1 No II 18; 2012 3655No I 15.AS 2017 3097Annex 2 No I]. See now: the National Economic Supply Act of 17 June 2016 (SR 531 ). ↩

Art. 44