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

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall col­lect from the per­sons re­spons­ible for cent­ral waste wa­ter treat­ment plants a charge to fin­ance the pay­ment for meas­ures to re­move or­gan­ic trace sub­stances in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 61a, in­clud­ing the Con­fed­er­a­tion’s im­ple­ment­a­tion costs.

² Per­sons re­spons­ible for cent­ral waste wa­ter treat­ment plants who have taken meas­ures un­der Art­icle 61a and sub­mit­ted the re­lated fi­nal ac­count for the in­vest­ment made by 30 Septem­ber in any cal­en­dar year are ex­emp­ted from pay­ing the charge from the fol­low­ing cal­en­dar year on­wards.

³ The level of the charge is based on the num­ber of res­id­ents con­nec­ted to the waste wa­ter treat­ment plant. The an­nu­al charge rate amounts to a max­im­um of 9 francs per res­id­ent.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the charge rate based on the an­ti­cip­ated costs and reg­u­late the pro­ced­ure for col­lect­ing the charge. The charge shall cease to ap­ply by 31 Decem­ber 2040 at the latest.

⁵ The per­sons re­spons­ible for the plants shall pass on the charge to the per­sons re­spons­ible for pro­du­cing the waste wa­ter.