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

¹ Un­less and un­til the Fed­er­al Coun­cil ex­pressly ex­er­cises its power to en­act or­din­ances, the can­tons may en­act their own reg­u­la­tions in terms of this Act, after con­sult­ing the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of the En­vir­on­ment, Trans­port, En­ergy and Com­mu­nic­a­tions.

² The can­tons may not stip­u­late any new am­bi­ent lim­it val­ues, alarm levels or plan­ning val­ues nor en­act any new reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing con­form­ity as­sess­ments for series-pro­duced in­stall­a­tions or for the hand­ling of sub­stances or or­gan­isms.¹⁸⁰ Ex­ist­ing can­ton­al reg­u­la­tions ap­ply un­til re­lated Fed­er­al Coun­cil reg­u­la­tions come in­to force.