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Waters Protection Ordinance
(WPO)

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

of 28 October 1998 (Status as of 1 January 2021)

Art. 47 Procedures for polluted waters

1 If the au­thor­it­ies es­tab­lish that a body of wa­ter does not ful­fil the re­quire­ments of An­nex 2 on wa­ter qual­ity or that the spe­cif­ic use of the body of wa­ter can­not be guar­an­teed they shall:

a.
de­term­ine and as­sess the type and ex­tent of the pol­lu­tion;
b.
de­term­ine the causes of the pol­lu­tion;
c.
as­sess the ef­fect­ive­ness of pos­sible meas­ures;
d.
en­sure that the re­quired meas­ures are un­der­taken based on the rel­ev­ant reg­u­la­tions.

2 If sev­er­al sources of pol­lu­tion are in­volved, the meas­ures to be taken by those re­spons­ible must be co­ordin­ated.