Federal Act
on the Protection of the Environment
(Environmental Protection Act, EPA)

¹ Any per­son who op­er­ates or wishes to op­er­ate a land­fill must guar­an­tee that the costs of clos­ure, after-care and re­medi­ation are covered by mak­ing re­serves, by tak­ing out in­sur­ance or in some oth­er way.

² If the op­er­at­or of the land­fill is him­self the guar­ant­or, he must no­ti­fy the au­thor­ity an­nu­ally of the amount of the guar­an­tee.

³ If a third party acts as guar­ant­or, he must no­ti­fy the au­thor­ity of the ex­ist­ence, sus­pen­sion and ter­min­a­tion of the guar­an­tee. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide that the guar­an­tee must not be sus­pen­ded or ter­min­ated un­til 60 days after re­ceipt of the no­ti­fic­a­tion.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may en­act reg­u­la­tions on the guar­an­tee. In par­tic­u­lar, it may:

a.

de­term­ine its scope and dur­a­tion or leave this to the au­thor­ity to de­cide on a case-to-case basis;

b.

make pro­vi­sion for the land on which the land­fill is situ­ated to be­come the prop­erty of the can­ton when the site is closed, and en­act reg­u­la­tions con­cern­ing any com­pens­a­tion.