Waters Protection Ordinance
(WPO)

¹ Ar­able farm­ing land with the qual­ity of crop ro­ta­tion areas in the space provided for wa­ters must be shown sep­ar­ately by the can­tons when mak­ing the in­vent­ory of crop ro­ta­tion areas in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 28 of the Spa­tial Plan­ning Or­din­ance of 28 June 2000⁵⁸. It may con­tin­ue to be in­cluded in the can­ton­al min­im­um of crop ro­ta­tion areas. If a re­lated fed­er­al de­cree is is­sued (Art. 5 WPA), these areas may be in­tens­ively farmed in emer­gency situ­ations.

² Al­tern­at­ive land must be provided in ac­cord­ance with the sec­tor­al plan for crop ro­ta­tion areas (Art. 29 of the Spa­tial Plan­ning Or­din­ance of 28 June 2000) in com­pens­a­tion for ar­able farm­ing land with the qual­ity of crop ro­ta­tion areas in the space provided for wa­ters that is re­quired to im­ple­ment struc­tur­al flood pro­tec­tion or re­hab­il­it­a­tion meas­ures.