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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil en­acts reg­u­la­tions on hand­ling of waste whose en­vir­on­ment­ally com­pat­ible dis­pos­al re­quires spe­cial meas­ures (spe­cial waste). It also reg­u­lates the im­port, ex­port and trans­it of such waste, pay­ing spe­cial at­ten­tion to the in­terests of re­gion­al cross-bor­der co­oper­a­tion as well as to the en­vir­on­ment­al im­pact of dis­pos­al fa­cil­it­ies in Switzer­land and abroad. It may also en­act reg­u­la­tions for com­pan­ies which from with­in Switzer­land or­gan­ise or are in­volved in hand­ling of spe­cial waste.

² It re­quires, in par­tic­u­lar, that spe­cial waste:

a.

must be marked as such for trans­fer with­in Switzer­land as well as for im­port, ex­port and trans­it;

b.

may be handed over in Switzer­land only to com­pan­ies with au­thor­isa­tion in terms of let­ter d;

c.

may be ex­por­ted only with au­thor­isa­tion from the Fed­er­al Of­fice;

d.

may be ac­cep­ted or im­por­ted only by com­pan­ies with au­thor­isa­tion from the can­ton.

³ These au­thor­isa­tions are gran­ted if en­vir­on­ment­ally com­pat­ible dis­pos­al is guar­an­teed.

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