1 The Responsible Person is responsible for the direct technical supervision of the facilities and in particular ensures that the medicinal products are handled appropriately.
2 They are responsible for the quality of the manufactured medicinal products and ensure that the legal provisions applicable to therapeutic products are observed.
3 They are authorised to issue instructions within their sphere of activity.
4 They and the company management jointly ensure their deputisation by adequately qualified specialists.
5 If the facilities cease operations, or if operations can be expected to cease imminently, the Responsible Person must report this situation to Swissmedic without delay.
6 They may not sit on one of the facilities’ supervisory committees and must decide on the release or rejection of batches independently of the company’s management. Swissmedic may grant a licence to small facilities without such segregation if they cannot implement the segregation because of their size.
7 If the size and nature of the facilities permit this activity to be performed on a part-time basis, responsibilities must be set out in writing and the minimum number of hours during which the person must be present in the facility must be determined.
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This document is not an official publication. Only the publication of the Federal Chancellery is legally binding.
Ceci n’est pas une publication officielle. Seule la publication opérée par la Chancellerie fédérale fait foi. Ordonnance sur les publications officielles, OPubl.