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

¹ For the long-term pre­ser­va­tion of soil fer­til­ity, meas­ures against chem­ic­al and bio­lo­gic­al soil pol­lu­tion must be laid down in the im­ple­ment­ing reg­u­la­tions to the Fed­er­al Act on the Pro­tec­tion of Wa­ter of 24 Janu­ary 1991⁶⁶, on dis­aster man­age­ment, on air pol­lu­tion con­trol, on en­vir­on­ment­ally haz­ard­ous sub­stances and or­gan­isms, on waste and on in­cent­ive taxes.⁶⁷

² The soil may be phys­ic­ally af­fected only to the ex­tent that its fer­til­ity is not dur­ably de­graded; this does not ap­ply to land used for build­ing. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may is­sue reg­u­la­tions or re­com­mend­a­tions on meas­ures against phys­ic­al im­pacts such as erosion or com­pac­tion.