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

¹ If an ap­plic­ant and or­gan­isa­tion enter in­to an agree­ment on ob­lig­a­tions that re­late to pub­lic law mat­ters, these agree­ments are deemed ex­clus­ively to be joint ap­plic­a­tions to the au­thor­ity. The au­thor­ity takes ac­count of the res­ult in its rul­ing or in its de­cision. It does not take ac­count of the res­ult if it is de­fect­ive in terms of Art­icle 49 of the Fed­er­al Act of 20 Decem­ber 1968¹²³ on Ad­min­is­trat­ive Pro­ced­ure.

² Agree­ments between ap­plic­ants and or­gan­isa­tions on fin­an­cial or oth­er be­ne­fits are not per­mit­ted if they are in­ten­ded for:

a.

the en­force­ment of pub­lic law ob­lig­a­tions, and in par­tic­u­lar re­quire­ments im­posed by au­thor­it­ies;

b.

meas­ures that are not provided for un­der pub­lic law or which have no con­nec­tion with the pro­ject;

c.

com­pens­a­tion for a waiver of leg­al ac­tion or for any oth­er pro­ced­ur­al con­duct.

³ The ap­peal au­thor­ity does not con­sider an ap­peal if it con­sti­tutes an ab­use of the law or if the or­gan­isa­tion has de­man­ded un­law­ful be­ne­fits in terms of para­graph 2.