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

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons con­duct sur­veys on en­vir­on­ment­al pol­lu­tion and check the ef­fect­ive­ness of meas­ures taken in terms of this Act.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil co­ordin­ates the fed­er­al and can­ton­al sur­veys and data col­lec­tions.

³ It de­cides what in­form­a­tion on sub­stances and or­gan­isms col­lec­ted in terms of the le­gis­la­tion on gene tech­no­logy, food­stuffs, thera­peut­ic products, chem­ic­als, ag­ri­cul­ture, epi­dem­ics and epi­zo­ot­ic dis­eases is made avail­able to the Fed­er­al Of­fice.¹⁰⁰