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

¹ En­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion or­gan­isa­tions have the right of ap­peal against rul­ings of the can­ton­al or fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies on the plan­ning, con­struc­tion or modi­fic­a­tion of in­stall­a­tions for which an en­vir­on­ment­al im­pact as­sess­ment in terms of Art­icle 10a is re­quired, sub­ject to the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments:

a.

the or­gan­isa­tion is act­ive in Switzer­land on a na­tion­al basis;

b.

it pur­sues non-profit mak­ing ob­jects; any com­mer­cial activ­it­ies must serve to achieve the non-profit mak­ing ob­jects.

² The right of ap­peal is avail­able to or­gan­isa­tions only for com­plaints in leg­al fields that have formed their ob­jects in terms of their art­icles for a min­im­um of ten years.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil des­ig­nates the or­gan­isa­tions that have the right to ap­peal.

⁴ The su­preme ex­ec­ut­ive body of the or­gan­isa­tion is re­spons­ible for fil­ing the ap­peal.

⁵ The or­gan­isa­tions may au­thor­ise their leg­ally in­de­pend­ent can­ton­al and supra-can­ton­al sub­si­di­ary or­gan­isa­tions to file ob­jec­tions and on a case-by-case basis to file ap­peals that re­late to their loc­al field of activ­ity.