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

¹ The au­thor­it­ies or third parties en­trus­ted with the im­ple­ment­a­tion of this Act or with the con­trol or su­per­vi­sion of its im­ple­ment­a­tion may pro­cess per­son­al data, in­clud­ing sens­it­ive per­son­al data re­lat­ing to ad­min­is­trat­ive or crim­in­al sanc­tions, in so far as is ne­ces­sary to im­ple­ment this sec­tion.

² The do­mest­ic au­thor­it­ies may dis­close per­son­al data, in­clud­ing sens­it­ive per­son­al data re­lat­ing to ad­min­is­trat­ive or crim­in­al sanc­tions, to for­eign au­thor­it­ies and in­ter­na­tion­al in­sti­tu­tions for the pur­pose of im­ple­ment­ing the pro­vi­sions of the European Uni­on con­cern­ing the put­ting in­to cir­cu­la­tion of tim­ber and wood products.