Swiss National Profile Assessing the National Infrastructure for Management of Chemicals Edition 2000 Author: Peter M. Müller, CH-4106 Therwil Accompanied by: Hans Peter Saxer, Hans Hosbach and Georg Karlaganis, Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape, Substances, Soil and Biotechnology Division, and Jörg Leimbacher, legal consultant, Bern With helpful support from the following Swiss offices, orga- nizations and/or individuals: Federal Chancellery Federal Office for Public Health (Heinz Reust, Division of Chemical Products) Federal Statistics Office Federal Institutes of Technology - Library and Annex Institutes Federal Customs Administration State Secretariat for Economic Affairs Federal Office of Agriculture and Federal Agricultural Research Institutes Intercantonal Office for the Control of Medicines (Jürg Seiler) National Accident Insurance Fund (Silvan Aschwanden) Several Cantonal Laboratories and Offices (Rolf Klaus, Josef Tremp & Werner Resch BL [+BS]; Arnold Koller & Roland Fiechter, GR) Society of Chemical Industries (Pietro Fontana, Paul Vesel & Joel Mingot) Associations of Liquid Fuel Importers and of the Soap and Detergent Industries Industry (Rudolf Hauert, Beat Müller, Hans-Ruedi Wyss) Cover photo: Urs Möckli / AURA, Switzerland Distributed by: Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape Documentation CH-3003 Bern Fax + 41 (0)31 324 02 16 E-mail:
[email protected] Internet: http://www.admin.ch/buwal/publikat/d/ Order number: DIV-4000-E-E © SAEFL 2000 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword 5 I Introduction