Waters Protection Ordinance
(WPO)

¹ The fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies are re­spons­ible for con­clud­ing the pro­gramme agree­ment:

a.¹⁰⁵

the FOEN for com­pens­at­ory pay­ments to waste wa­ter treat­ment plants and for the plan­ning and con­duct of meas­ures to re­hab­il­it­ate wa­ters;

b.

the FO­AG for com­pens­at­ory pay­ments for meas­ures in ag­ri­cul­ture.

² The pro­gramme agree­ment shall be con­cluded for a spe­cif­ic ter­rit­ory. The sub­ject mat­ter of the pro­gramme agree­ment shall in par­tic­u­lar be:

a.

the stra­tegic pro­gramme goals that must be jointly achieved;

b.

the ob­lig­a­tions of the Can­ton;

c.

the fed­er­al sub­sidy to be provided;

d.

con­trolling.

³ The dur­a­tion of the pro­gramme agree­ment amounts in the case of com­pens­at­ory pay­ments to:

a.

meas­ures in ag­ri­cul­ture: nor­mally 6 years;

b.

oth­er meas­ures: 4 years.¹⁰⁶

⁴ The com­pet­ent Fed­er­al Of­fice shall is­sue guidelines on the pro­ced­ure in the case of pro­gramme agree­ments and on the in­form­a­tion and doc­u­ments on the sub­ject mat­ter of the pro­gramme agree­ment.