Noise Abatement Ordinance
(NAO)

¹ The Fed­er­al Of­fice for the En­vir­on­ment shall with­hold all or part of the in­stal­ment pay­ments dur­ing the pro­gramme if the can­ton:

fails to ful­fil its re­port­ing duty (Art. 26 para. 1);

fails to meet its ob­lig­a­tions to a sub­stan­tial ex­tent through its own fault.

² If on con­clu­sion of the pro­gramme it emerges that the can­ton has failed to meet its ob­lig­a­tions, the com­pet­ent Fed­er­al Of­fice shall re­quire the can­ton to rec­ti­fy the situ­ation; it shall set the Can­ton an ap­pro­pri­ate dead­line for do­ing so.

³ If in­stall­a­tions for which sub­sidies have been made are used for a pur­pose oth­er than that in­ten­ded, the Fed­er­al Of­fice for the En­vir­on­ment may re­quire the can­ton to cease or make good the mis­use with­in a reas­on­able peri­od.

⁴ If the de­fects are not rec­ti­fied or the mis­use does not stop or is not remedied, the sub­sidies may be re­claimed in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 28 and 29 of the Sub­sidies Act of 5 Oc­to­ber 1990²².