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Your contact at SVTI:
Birgit Baumgartner, Head of Market Surveillance of Pressure Equipment, Tel. 044 877 61 69
Registration form for pressure vessels and equipment with a defect or suspected defect.
SECO website with information regarding product safety and placement on the market (german version).
Notified bodies
that perform conformity assessments for pressure equipment and pressure vessels and which issue recognised declarations of conformity in Switzerland:
Click here for notified bodies in the rest of Europe:
Authority issuing the order:
Market Surveillance of Pressure Equipment is performed by order of the Swiss Federal Council and under the supervision of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).
SECO is responsible for the legislation of product safety:
Stauffacherstrasse 101
8004 Zurich
Tel. 043 322 21 40
Legal basis
Market surveillance takes place within the scope of enforcement of the Swiss Federal Statute on Product Safety (PrSG).
Market surveillance of pressure vessels and pressure equipment is based on the Product Safety Ordinance (PrSV) and the Pressure Vessel Ordinance or Pressure Equipment Ordinance, which reflect the corresponding European guidelines.
Reporting suspected non-compliance
Reports about (potentially) non-compliant pressure equipment can be submitted to SECO or directly to Market Surveillance of Pressure Equipment using this form.
Market Surveillance will then perform the necessary investigations.