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

¹ As part of the use of the net rev­en­ue from the min­er­al oil tax and the na­tion­al high­ways charge, the Con­fed­er­a­tion shall con­trib­ute to the cost:

a.

of en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion meas­ures along na­tion­al roads and main roads to be up­graded with fed­er­al aid ac­cord­ing to the pro­vi­sions of the Fed­er­al Act of 22 March 1985¹¹³ on the Ap­plic­a­tion of the Ear­marked Min­er­al Oil Tax (MinOA); in the case of main roads, these con­tri­bu­tions are part of the glob­al con­tri­bu­tions un­der the MinOA;

b.

of noise abate­ment and sound­proof­ing meas­ures as part of the up­grad­ing of the re­mainder of the road net­work on the basis of pro­gramme agree­ments with the can­tons; the level of the con­tri­bu­tions is based on the ef­fect­ive­ness of the meas­ures.

² The can­tons shall re­port to the Con­fed­er­a­tion on the use of the con­tri­bu­tions to­wards en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion meas­ures along main roads that are to be up­graded with fed­er­al aid, and along oth­er roads.