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

¹ Traders must doc­u­ment the sup­pli­er from which they have ob­tained tim­ber or wood products and the pur­chaser to which they have sup­plied them; the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may im­pose a doc­u­ment­a­tion re­quire­ment for tim­ber or wood products and oth­er raw ma­ter­i­als and products that it spe­cifies pur­su­ant to Art­icle 35e para­graph 3.

² Any per­son who sup­plies tim­ber or wood products to con­sumers must de­clare the type of tim­ber and its ori­gin. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the tim­ber and wood products to which this de­clar­a­tion ob­lig­a­tion ap­plies.