Nuclear Energy Ordinance
(NEO)

¹ The fol­low­ing geo­lo­gic­al in­vest­ig­a­tions do not re­quire a li­cence:

a.

seis­mic and oth­er geo­phys­ic­al meas­ure­ments, e.g. gra­vi­met­ric, geo­elec­tric and elec­tro­mag­net­ic re­cord­ings;

b.

geo­lo­gic­al stud­ies on the sur­face and in ex­ist­ing un­der­ground struc­tures, in­clud­ing ex­trac­tion of rock samples;

c.

col­lec­tion of ground­wa­ter and well-wa­ter samples, meas­ure­ments of wells, shal­low piezo­met­ric meas­ure­ments and mark­ing tests;

d.

meas­ure­ments of ground gases.

² The above ex­emp­tions re­main sub­ject to any au­thor­isa­tions that may be re­quired for the activ­it­ies con­cerned in ac­cord­ance with can­ton­al or fed­er­al le­gis­la­tion.