Federal Act
on the Protection of Nature and Cultural Heritage
(NCHA)¹

¹ In the ful­fil­ment of fed­er­al tasks, the Con­fed­er­a­tion, its in­sti­tu­tions and en­ter­prises, and the can­tons shall en­sure that her­it­age land­scapes and sites of loc­al char­ac­ter, his­tor­ic­al sites, and nat­ur­al and cul­tur­al monu­ments are care­fully man­aged and, where there is an over­rid­ing pub­lic in­terest, pre­served un­di­min­ished.¹⁷

² They shall ful­fil this ob­lig­a­tion by:

a.

suit­ably design­ing and main­tain­ing their own build­ings and in­stall­a­tions, or by fore­go­ing their con­struc­tion al­to­geth­er (Art. 2 let. a);

b.

im­pos­ing con­di­tions or re­quire­ments on the is­sue of li­cences and au­thor­isa­tions, or re­fus­ing to is­sue them (Art. 2 let. b);

c.

re­strict­ing or re­fus­ing sub­sidies (Art. 2 let. c).

³ This ob­lig­a­tion ap­plies re­gard­less of the sig­ni­fic­ance of the site as defined in Art­icle 4. A meas­ure must not go bey­ond what is re­quired to pro­tect the site and its sur­round­ings.

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