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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil en­acts the im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions.

^1bis In do­ing so, it may de­clare in­ter­na­tion­ally har­mon­ised tech­nic­al reg­u­la­tions and stand­ards to be ap­plic­able and:

a.

au­thor­ise the Fed­er­al Of­fice re­spons­ible to de­clare sub­or­din­ate amend­ments to these reg­u­la­tions and stand­ards to be ap­plic­able;

b.

provide that the reg­u­la­tions and stand­ards de­clared to be ap­plic­able are pub­lished in a spe­cif­ic man­ner and that trans­la­tion in­to the of­fi­cial lan­guages is dis­pensed with.⁸⁵

² It may con­clude in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments on:⁸⁶

a.

tech­nic­al reg­u­la­tions;

a^bis.⁸⁷ en­vir­on­ment­ally haz­ard­ous sub­stances (Art. 26–29);

b.⁸⁸

waste avoid­ance and dis­pos­al;

c.

co­oper­a­tion in fron­ti­er zones by the es­tab­lish­ment of in­ter­na­tion­al com­mis­sions with ad­vis­ory status;

d.

data col­lec­tions and sur­veys;

e.

re­search and train­ing.

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