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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may is­sue reg­u­la­tions on the in­tro­duc­tion of:

a.

a vol­un­tary sys­tem for an en­vir­on­ment­al la­bel («eco-la­bel»);

b.

a vol­un­tary sys­tem for the eval­u­ation and im­prove­ment of en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion in es­tab­lish­ments (en­vir­on­ment­al man­age­ment and audit­ing).

² In so do­ing, it must take ac­count of in­ter­na­tion­al law and in­ter­na­tion­ally re­cog­nised tech­nic­al stand­ards.