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

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 7 October 1983 (Status as of 1 January 2022)


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Art. 4 Implementing provisions based on other federal legislation

1 Reg­u­la­tions on the en­vir­on­ment­al ef­fects of air pol­lu­tion, noise, vi­bra­tions and ra­di­ation that are based on oth­er fed­er­al le­gis­la­tion must com­ply with the prin­ciples of lim­it­a­tion of emis­sions (Art. 11), am­bi­ent lim­it val­ues (Art. 13–15), alarm val­ues (Art. 19) and plan­ning val­ues (Art. 23–25).6

2 Reg­u­la­tions on the hand­ling of sub­stances and or­gan­isms af­fect­ing the en­vir­on­ment that are based on oth­er fed­er­al le­gis­la­tion must com­ply with the prin­ciples gov­ern­ing en­vir­on­ment­ally haz­ard­ous sub­stances (Art. 26–28) and or­gan­isms (Art. 29a–29h).7

6Amended by No I of the FA of 21 Dec. 1995, in force since 1 Ju­ly 1997 (AS 1997 1155; BBl 1993 II 1445).

7 Amended by An­nex No 4 of the Gene Tech­no­logy Act of 21 March 2003, in force since 1 Jan. 2004 (AS 2003 4803; BBl 2000 2391).

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