Ordinance
on Protection against Major Accidents
(Major Accidents Ordinance, MAO)

¹ The can­tons shall en­force this Or­din­ance un­less re­spons­ib­il­ity for en­force­ment is as­signed to the Con­fed­er­a­tion.

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

³ The FOEN shall spe­cify the min­im­al geodata mod­els and present­a­tion mod­els for of­fi­cial geodata in ac­cord­ance with this Or­din­ance for which it is des­ig­nated as the com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­ity in An­nex 1 of the Or­din­ance of 21 May 2008⁶⁰ on Geoin­form­a­tion.⁶¹