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

of 24 January 1991 (Status as of 1 February 2023)

Art. 48 Enforcement powers of the Confederation 40

1 In en­for­cing any oth­er fed­er­al act or any in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ment, the rel­ev­ant fed­er­al au­thor­ity is at the same time re­spons­ible for the en­force­ment of the Wa­ters Pro­tec­tion Act. Be­fore mak­ing its de­cision, it shall con­sult the can­tons con­cerned. The Fed­er­al Of­fice for the En­vir­on­ment41 (Fed­er­al Of­fice)42 and the oth­er fed­er­al agen­cies con­cerned shall par­ti­cip­ate in the en­force­ment pro­ced­ures in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 62a and 62b of the Gov­ern­ment and Ad­min­is­tra­tion Or­gan­isa­tion Act of 21 March 199743.

2 If the pro­ced­ure un­der para­graph 1 is not suit­able for cer­tain tasks, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late en­force­ment by the fed­er­al agen­cies con­cerned.

3 The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall en­force the reg­u­la­tions on sub­stances (Art. 9 para. 2 let. c); it may call on the as­sist­ance of the can­tons for spe­cif­ic ele­ments of its tasks.

4 The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­cide which in­form­a­tion ob­tained in ac­cord­ance with oth­er fed­er­al acts on sub­stances will be made avail­able to the Fed­er­al Of­fice.

40 Amended by No I 15 of the FA of 18 June 1999 on the Co­ordin­a­tion and Sim­pli­fic­a­tion of De­cision-mak­ing Pro­ced­ures, in force since 1 Jan. 2000 (AS 1999 3071; BBl 1998 2591).

41 The name of this ad­min­is­trat­ive unit was changed in ap­plic­a­tion of Art. 16 para. 3 of the Pub­lic­a­tions Or­din­ance of 17 Nov. 2004 (AS 20044937).

42 Ex­pres­sion in ac­cord­ance with An­nex No 5 of the Gene Tech­no­logy Act of 21 March 2003, in force since 1 Jan. 2004 (AS 20034803; BBl 2000 2391). This amend­ment has been taken in­to ac­count throughout the text.

43 SR 172.010