Federal Act
on the Protection of Waters
(Waters Protection Act, WPA)

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

of 24 January 1991 (Status as of 1 January 2022)


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Art. 52 Tolerance and professional secrecy

1The fed­er­al and can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies may carry out sur­veys on private and pub­lic bod­ies of wa­ter. They may set up the equip­ment ne­ces­sary for this pur­pose, and they may in­spect in­stall­a­tions. Own­ers of land and per­sons re­spons­ible for in­stall­a­tions shall en­sure that per­sons en­trus­ted with such du­ties are al­lowed ac­cess, and they shall provide them with all the in­form­a­tion that they may re­quire.

2Per­sons en­trus­ted with en­for­cing this Act, as well as ex­perts and mem­bers of com­mis­sions and spe­cial­ised bod­ies, shall be sub­ject to the rules of pro­fes­sion­al secrecy.

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40 Re­pealed by Art. 2 No 2 of the FD of 27 Sept. 2013 (Aar­hus Con­ven­tion), with ef­fect from 1 June 2014 (AS 2014 1021; BBl 2012 4323).

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