Art. 40a

1. The manufacturer of a biocidal product shall maintain, in relation to the manufacturing process, appropriate documentation in paper or electronic format relevant for the quality and safety of the biocidal product to be placed on the market.
2. The documentation shall include as a minimum:
   1. safety data sheets and specifications of active substances and other ingredients used for manufacturing the biocidal product;
   2. records of the various manufacturing operations performed;
   3. results of internal quality controls;
   4. identification of production batches.
3. The manufacturer shall store production batch samples.

⁴The documentation and the samples must be retained in accordance with Article 45 paragraph 2 of the ChemO¹.^{2 5}Safety data sheets must be retained in accordance with Article 23 ChemO.³