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

¹ If a sub­stan­tial volume of bio­gen­ic mo­tor and thermal fuels or mix­tures that con­tain bio­gen­ic mo­tor and thermal fuels that do not meet the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 12b para­graphs 1 and 3 of the Min­er­al Oil Tax Act of 21 June 1996⁸² are put in­to cir­cu­la­tion, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide that cer­tain bio­gen­ic mo­tor and thermal fuels that it des­ig­nates may only be put in­to cir­cu­la­tion if they meet spe­cif­ic eco­lo­gic­al or so­cial re­quire­ments.

² Eth­an­ol used for thermal pur­poses is ex­emp­ted from the au­thor­isa­tion re­quire­ment.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall stip­u­late the fol­low­ing, tak­ing ac­count of the pro­vi­sions of the le­gis­la­tion on the min­er­al oil tax:

a.

the eco­lo­gic­al and so­cial re­quire­ments that bio­gen­ic mo­tor and thermal fuels re­quir­ing au­thor­isa­tion must meet;

b.

the au­thor­isa­tion pro­ced­ure.