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

¹ Any per­son who puts tim­ber or wood products or oth­er raw ma­ter­i­als and products spe­cified by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil pur­su­ant to Art­icle 35epara­graph 3 in­to cir­cu­la­tion for the first time must ex­er­cise the re­quired care to en­sure that the goods meet the re­quire­ments un­der Art­icle 35e.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil reg­u­lates:

a.

the nature, con­tent and scope of the duty of care;

b.

the mon­it­or­ing of com­pli­ance with the duty of care;

c.

the re­cog­ni­tion of or­gan­isa­tions that sup­port and veri­fy com­pli­ance with the duty of care, and the mon­it­or­ing of their activ­it­ies.

³ It may im­pose re­port­ing ob­lig­a­tions on those who put tim­ber or wood products in cir­cu­la­tion for the first time.

⁴ It may provide for the re­turn, seizure or for­feit­ure of tim­ber or wood products and oth­er raw ma­ter­i­als and products that it spe­cifies pur­su­ant to Art­icle 35e para­graph 3 in cases of in­fringe­ment of para­graphs 1 and 2 and of Art­icle 35e. It may also provide for a ban on the mar­ket­ing of tim­ber and wood products in par­tic­u­larly ser­i­ous cases.