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

¹ A right of ap­peal against rul­ings of the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies or the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies shall be ac­cor­ded to:

a.

the com­munes;

b.

the or­gan­isa­tions con­cerned with nature pro­tec­tion, cul­tur­al her­it­age pro­tec­tion, monu­ment pre­ser­va­tion or re­lated ob­ject­ives, sub­ject to the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments:

1.

the or­gan­isa­tion is act­ive throughout Switzer­land,

2.

it pur­sues solely non-profit-mak­ing ob­jects; any com­mer­cial activ­it­ies must serve the achieve­ment of its non-profit-mak­ing ob­jects.

² The right of ap­peal is ac­cor­ded to the or­gan­isa­tions only in leg­al fields that have formed part of their ob­jects for at least ten years.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall des­ig­nate the or­gan­isa­tions en­titled to ap­peal.

⁴ The su­preme ex­ec­ut­ive body of the or­gan­isa­tion is re­spons­ible for fil­ing the ap­peal.

⁵ The or­gan­isa­tions may give gen­er­al au­thor­isa­tion to their leg­ally in­de­pend­ent can­ton­al and supra-can­ton­al sub-or­gan­isa­tions to raise gen­er­al ob­jec­tions or to file ap­peals in spe­cif­ic cases that re­late to their loc­al area of activ­ity.