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

¹ Li­able to a fine not ex­ceed­ing 20,000 francs is any per­son who wil­fully:¹⁶¹

a.

fails to com­ply with the lim­it­a­tions of emis­sions stip­u­lated in this Act (Art. 12 and 34 para. 1);

b.

fails to com­ply with re­medi­ation or­ders (Art. 16 and 32c para. 1);

c.

fails to carry out of­fi­cially ordered sound­proof­ing meas­ures (Art. 19–25);

d.

provides false or in­com­plete in­form­a­tion or in­struc­tions (Art. 27);

e.

handles sub­stances with no ac­com­pa­ny­ing in­form­a­tion or in­struc­tions in such a man­ner that they, their de­riv­at­ives or waste may present a danger to the en­vir­on­ment or in­dir­ectly en­danger people (Art. 28);

f.

burns waste il­leg­ally out­side in­stall­a­tions (Art. 30c para. 2);

g.

de­pos­its waste out­side au­thor­ised land­fills (Art. 30e para. 1);

h.

in­fringes the re­port­ing du­ties in con­nec­tion with waste (Art. 30fpara. 4, 30g para. 2, 32b para. 2 and 3);

i.

in­fringes the reg­u­la­tions on waste (Art. 30a let. a and c, 30b, 30c para. 3, 30d, 30h para. 1, 32a^bis, 32b para. 4 and 32e para. 1–4);

k.

in­fringes the reg­u­la­tions on the move­ment of oth­er forms of waste (Art. 30gpara. 1);

l.

fails to guar­an­tee cov­er­age of the costs of clos­ure, after-care and re­medi­ation of a land­fill (Art. 32b para. 1);

m.

in­fringes the reg­u­la­tions on phys­ic­al im­pacts on and the use of the soil (Art. 33 para. 2 and 34 para. 1 and 2) or on meas­ures to re­duce the soil pol­lu­tion (Art. 34 para. 3);

m^bis.¹⁶²

in­fringes reg­u­la­tions on the trace­ab­il­ity of tim­ber and wood products and raw ma­ter­i­als and products spe­cified by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil pur­su­ant to Art­icle 35epara­graph 3 and for which a doc­u­ment­a­tion re­quire­ment has been im­posed (Art. 35g para. 1);

n.

in­fringes the reg­u­la­tions on pla­cing series-pro­duced in­stall­a­tions¹⁶³ on the mar­ket (Art. 40);

o.

re­fuses to provide in­form­a­tion to the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity or provides in­cor­rect in­form­a­tion (Art. 46);

p.¹⁶⁴

in­fringes the reg­u­la­tions on provid­ing a guar­an­tee for li­ab­il­ity (Art. 59b).

² If the of­fend­er acts neg­li­gently, the pen­alty is a fine.

³ At­tempts and com­pli­city are also of­fences.