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

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion en­forces Art­icle 12 para­graph 1 let­ter e (Reg­u­la­tions on thermal and mo­tor fuels), 26 (self-reg­u­la­tion), 27 (In­form­a­tion for re­cip­i­ents), 29 (Reg­u­la­tions on sub­stances), 29a–29h(En­vir­on­ment­ally haz­ard­ous or­gan­isms), 30b para­graph 3 (De­pos­it com­pens­a­tion fund), 30fand 30g(Im­port and ex­port of waste), 31a para­graph 2 and 31c para­graph 3 (Fed­er­al waste dis­pos­al meas­ures), 32a^bis(Pre-paid dis­pos­al fee), 32epara­graphs 1–4 (Charge to fin­ance re­medi­ation), 35a–35c (In­cent­ive taxes), 35d (Bio­gen­ic mo­tor and thermal fuels), 35e–35h (Tim­ber or wood products or oth­er raw ma­ter­i­als and products), 39 (Im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions and in­ter­na­tion­al law agree­ments), 40 (Pla­cing series-pro­duced in­stall­a­tions on the mar­ket) and 46 para­graph 3 (In­form­a­tion on sub­stances and or­gan­isms); it may re­quire the can­tons to carry out cer­tain du­ties.⁸⁹

² Any fed­er­al au­thor­ity that en­forces an­oth­er Fed­er­al Act or an in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ment is, in ful­filling this duty, also re­spons­ible for the en­force­ment of the En­vir­on­ment­al Pro­tec­tion Act. It must con­sult the can­tons con­cerned be­fore mak­ing its de­cision. The Fed­er­al Of­fice and the oth­er fed­er­al agen­cies con­cerned co­oper­ate in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 62a and 62b of the Gov­ern­ment and Ad­min­is­tra­tion Or­gan­isa­tion Act of 21 March 1997⁹⁰ in re­la­tion to en­force­ment.⁹¹

³ If the pro­ced­ure un­der para­graph 2 is not suit­able for cer­tain du­ties, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil reg­u­lates en­force­ment by the fed­er­al agen­cies con­cerned.⁹²

⁴ The fed­er­al en­force­ment au­thor­it­ies must take ac­count of can­ton­al en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion meas­ures.⁹³