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

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


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Art. 61 Nitrogen removal in waste water treatment plants 5152

1 With­in the lim­its of the ap­proved cred­its and on the basis of pro­gramme agree­ments, the Con­fed­er­a­tion shall grant the can­tons glob­al com­pens­at­ory pay­ments for the con­struc­tion and pro­cure­ment of:

a.
in­stall­a­tions and equip­ment for ni­tro­gen re­mov­al at cent­ral waste wa­ter treat­ment plants provided they serve to ful­fil agree­ments un­der in­ter­na­tion­al law or de­cisions of in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions that have the aim of main­tain­ing the qual­ity of wa­ters out­side Switzer­land;
b.
sew­ers that are con­struc­ted in­stead of in­stall­a­tions and equip­ment in ac­cord­ance with let­ter a.

2 The level of the com­pens­at­ory pay­ments is de­term­ined by the volume of ni­tro­gen that is re­moved by means of the meas­ures men­tioned in para­graph 1.

51 Amended by No II 23 of the FA of 6 Oct. 2006 on the New Sys­tem of Fin­an­cial Equal­isa­tion and Di­vi­sion of Tasks between the Con­fed­er­a­tion and the Can­tons (NFEA), in force since 1 Jan. 2008 (AS 2007 5779; BBl 2005 6029).

52 Amended by No I of the FA of 21 March 2014, in force since 1 Jan. 2016 (AS 2014 3327; BBl 2013 5549).

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