Waters Protection Ordinance
(WPO)

¹ The level of the glob­al com­pens­at­ory pay­ments for meas­ures to re­hab­il­it­ate wa­ters (Art. 62b para. 1 WPA) is gov­erned by:

a.

the length of the stretch of wa­ter that is to be re­hab­il­it­ated or is opened by the re­mov­al of ob­struc­tions;

b.

the width of the chan­nel bed of the wa­ter­course;

c.

the width of the space provided for the wa­ters that are to be re­hab­il­it­ated;

d.

the be­ne­fits of re­hab­il­it­a­tion for nature and the land­scape in com­par­is­on with the prob­able costs;

e.

the be­ne­fits of re­hab­il­it­a­tion for re­cre­ation;

f.

the qual­ity of the meas­ures.

² The level of the glob­al com­pens­at­ory pay­ments shall be agreed between the FOEN and the can­ton con­cerned.

³ Com­pens­at­ory pay­ments may be made in­di­vidu­ally if the meas­ures:

a.

cost more than five mil­lion francs;

b.

have a supra­can­ton­al im­pact or con­cern bor­der wa­ters;

c.

af­fect pro­tec­ted zones or prop­er­ties lis­ted in na­tion­al in­vent­or­ies;

d.

re­quire a com­plex or spe­cial ex­pert as­sess­ment due to the pos­sible al­tern­at­ives or for oth­er reas­ons; or

e.

were un­fore­see­able.

⁴ The con­tri­bu­tion to the at­trib­ut­able costs of the meas­ures un­der para­graph 3 shall amount to between 35 and 80 per cent and is gov­erned by the cri­ter­ia lis­ted in para­graph 1.

⁵ Com­pens­at­ory pay­ments for re­hab­il­it­a­tion shall only be gran­ted if the can­ton con­cerned has drawn up a re­hab­il­it­a­tion plan that meets the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 41d.

⁶ No com­pens­at­ory pay­ments shall be gran­ted un­der Art­icle 62b para­graph 1 WPA for meas­ures re­quired un­der Art­icle 4 of the Fed­er­al Act of 21 June 1991⁹⁹ on Hy­draul­ic En­gin­eer­ing.