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

¹ The au­thor­ity may re­quest the per­son re­spons­ible to provide ap­pro­pri­ate se­cur­ity to cov­er his prob­able share of the costs of in­vest­ig­a­tion, mon­it­or­ing and re­medi­ation where a pol­luted site is ex­pec­ted to cause harm­ful ef­fects or nuis­ances.

² The amount of the se­cur­ity is fixed in par­tic­u­lar on the basis of the ex­tent, nature and in­tens­ity of the pol­lu­tion. It is ad­jus­ted if jus­ti­fied on the basis of im­proved know­ledge of the situ­ation.

³ The sale or di­vi­sion of im­mov­able prop­erty on which a site is loc­ated that is entered in the re­gister of pol­luted sites re­quires the au­thor­ity's au­thor­isa­tion. Au­thor­isa­tion is gran­ted if:

a.

no harm­ful ef­fects or nuis­ances are ex­pec­ted from the site;

b.

se­cur­ity is provided for the costs of the ex­pec­ted meas­ures; or

c.

there is an over­rid­ing pub­lic in­terest in the sale or in the di­vi­sion.

⁴ The can­ton­al au­thor­ity may have the entry in the re­gister of pol­luted sites noted in the land re­gister entry for the prop­erty in ques­tion.