2017/9505/CH
EC/EFTA
CH Suisse
  • S00S - SANTE, EQUIPEMENT MEDICAL
2017-11-15
2017-08-14

Medicinal products

Draft Ordinance on Complementary and Herbal Medicinal Products (KPAV) and additional annexes

With the recent revision of the Therapeutic Products Act (TPA, Stage 2), the leg-islative body is improving, amongst other things, the population’s access to me-dicinal products. Due to this recent legislative changes and based on the adapted Art. 14 and 15 of the TPA, the ordinance describes the requirements for simpler access opportunities for various medicinal products used in complementary medicine. For several herbal, homeopathic and anthroposophic medicinal prod-ucts as well as for some traditionally used Asiatic medicines the documentation requirements are reduced. For certain categories (with a low scientific risk pro-file), the marketing authorization procedure is reduced to a simple notification process. In separate annexes of the ordinance, the active substances allowed as components of those medicinal products are listed.