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

¹ The au­thor­it­ies must grant con­ces­sions if any im­prove­ment un­der Art­icle 16, para­graph 2 is dis­pro­por­tion­ate in a par­tic­u­lar case.

² The am­bi­ent lim­it val­ues for air pol­lut­ants and the alarm val­ues for am­bi­ent noise levels must not, however, be ex­ceeded.²⁹