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

¹ The au­thor­it­ies shall in­form the pub­lic ad­equately about en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion and levels of en­vir­on­ment­al pol­lu­tion; in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

they shall pub­lish stud­ies on en­vir­on­ment­al pol­lu­tion and on the suc­cess of meas­ures un­der this Act (Art. 44);

b.

they may, provided it is of gen­er­al in­terest and hav­ing con­sul­ted those con­cerned, pub­lish:

1.

the res­ults of the con­form­ity as­sess­ment of series-pro­duced in­stall­a­tions (Art. 40),

2.

the res­ults of in­spec­tions of in­stall­a­tions,

3.

the in­form­a­tion un­der Art­icle 46.

² Over­rid­ing private and pub­lic in­terests in con­fid­en­ti­al­ity and man­u­fac­tur­ing and busi­ness secrecy are re­served in every case.

³ The en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion agen­cies shall ad­vise the au­thor­it­ies and private in­di­vidu­als. They shall ad­vise the pub­lic on en­vir­on­ment­ally sound be­ha­viour and re­com­mend meas­ures to re­duce en­vir­on­ment­al pol­lu­tion.

⁴ En­vir­on­ment­al in­form­a­tion must if pos­sible be made avail­able as open di­git­al data re­cords.