Ordinance
on Air Pollution Control
(OAPC)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall en­force the pro­vi­sions con­cern­ing:

a.³⁷

mar­ket sur­veil­lance for con­struc­tion ma­chines and particle fil­ter sys­tems, and ma­chines and equip­ment with in­tern­al com­bus­tion en­gines (Art­icle 37);

b.³⁸

con­trol of thermal and mo­tor fuels on im­port and on pla­cing on the mar­ket (Art­icle 38).³⁹

² When ap­ply­ing oth­er fed­er­al acts or in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments or res­ol­u­tions re­lat­ing to mat­ters reg­u­lated by this Or­din­ance, fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies shall also en­force this Or­din­ance. Co­oper­a­tion of the FOEN and the can­tons is gov­erned by Art­icle 41 para­graphs 2 and 4 of the Act; these pro­vi­sions are sub­ject to leg­al re­quire­ments con­cern­ing secrecy.⁴⁰

³ The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of the En­vir­on­ment, Trans­port, En­ergy and Com­mu­nic­a­tions⁴¹ may or­der im­ple­ment­ing and sup­ple­ment­ary pro­vi­sions, par­tic­u­larly con­cern­ing:

a.

meth­ods of test­ing, meas­ure­ment and cal­cu­la­tion;

b.

type-ap­prov­al;

c.

stacks.

⁴ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall carry out sur­veys of the air pol­lu­tion situ­ation and trends in Switzer­land as a whole (Art­icle 39).⁴²