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

¹ The put­ting in­to cir­cu­la­tion for the first time of tim­ber and wood products that have not been har­ves­ted or traded in ac­cord­ance with the reg­u­la­tions of the coun­try of ori­gin is pro­hib­ited.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall lay down the re­quire­ments for put­ting tim­ber and wood products in­to cir­cu­la­tion in line with the rules of the European Uni­on.

³ In line with in­ter­na­tion­al stand­ards, it may im­pose re­quire­ments for put­ting oth­er raw ma­ter­i­als and products in­to cir­cu­la­tion or pro­hib­it their be­ing put in­to cir­cu­la­tion if their cul­tiv­a­tion, ex­trac­tion or pro­duc­tion sig­ni­fic­antly pol­lutes the en­vir­on­ment or sig­ni­fic­antly jeop­ard­ises the sus­tain­able use of nat­ur­al re­sources.