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Ordinance
on the Remediation of Polluted Sites
(Contaminated Sites Ordinance, CSO)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 26 August 1998 (Status as of 1 May 2017)

Art. 15 Objectives and urgency of remediation

1 The ob­ject­ive of re­medi­ation is the elim­in­a­tion of im­pacts that led to the need for re­medi­ation in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 9 - 12, or of the real danger of such ef­fects.

2 As re­gards re­medi­ation for the pur­pose of ground­wa­ter pro­tec­tion, de­vi­ation from the ob­ject­ive is made if:

a.
by this means the total en­vir­on­ment­al im­pact can be lessened;
b.
dis­pro­por­tion­ate costs would oth­er­wise res­ult; and
c.15
the ex­ploit­ab­il­ity of ground­wa­ter in wa­ter pro­tec­tion areas Au is guar­an­teed, or if sur­face wa­ters con­nec­ted to ground­wa­ter out­side wa­ter pro­tec­tion areas Au ful­fil the re­quire­ments of the wa­ters pro­tec­tion le­gis­la­tion re­gard­ing wa­ter qual­ity.

3 As re­gards re­medi­ation for the pur­pose of sur­face wa­ters pro­tec­tion, de­vi­ation from the ob­ject­ives is made if:

a.
by this means the total en­vir­on­ment­al im­pact can be lessened;
b.
dis­pro­por­tion­ate costs would oth­er­wise res­ult; and
c.
the wa­ters com­plies with the re­quire­ments of the wa­ters pro­tec­tion le­gis­la­tion re­gard­ing wa­ter qual­ity.

4 Re­medi­ation is deemed to be of par­tic­u­lar ur­gency if an ex­ist­ing use is im­paired or im­me­di­ately en­dangered.

5 The au­thor­it­ies shall as­sess the ob­ject­ives and the ur­gency of re­medi­ation on the basis of the de­tailed in­vest­ig­a­tion.

15 Amended by An­nex 5 No. 5 of the O on the Pro­tec­tion of Wa­ters of 28 Oct. 1998, in force since 1 Jan. 1999 (AS 19982863).