Ordinance
on the Avoidance and the Disposal of Waste
(Waste Ordinance, ADWO)

¹ The can­ton­al au­thor­ity shall grant the op­er­at­ing li­cence for a land­fill or a com­part­ment if:

a.

the land­fill struc­ture has been con­struc­ted in ac­cord­ance with the ap­proved con­struc­tion plans;

b.

op­er­at­ing reg­u­la­tions in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 27 para­graph 2 are avail­able; and

c.

a pre­lim­in­ary plan for clos­ure is avail­able to­geth­er with proof that the costs of clos­ure in ac­cord­ance with the pre­lim­in­ary plan and for the an­ti­cip­ated after-care will be covered.

² It shall veri­fy com­pli­ance with para­graph 1 let­ter a on the basis of doc­u­ment­a­tion from the ap­plic­ant and by car­ry­ing out an on-site in­spec­tion of the land­fill struc­ture.

³ The au­thor­ity shall spe­cify the fol­low­ing in the op­er­at­ing li­cence:

a.

the type the land­fill or of the com­part­ment;

b.

any catch­ment areas;

c.

any re­stric­tions on the waste ac­cept­able in ac­cord­ance with An­nex 5;

d.

meas­ures to com­ply with the op­er­at­ing re­quire­ments in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 27 para­graph 1, in par­tic­u­lar the fre­quency of in­spec­tions;

e.

mon­it­or­ing of the col­lec­ted leachate and if ap­plic­able of the ground­wa­ter in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 41;

f.

if ap­plic­able, the in­spec­tions of the de­gass­ing sys­tems and ana­lyses of the land­fill gases in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 53 para­graph 5;

g.

fur­ther re­quire­ments and con­di­tions ne­ces­sary to com­ply with the en­vir­on­ment­al and wa­ters pro­tec­tion le­gis­la­tion.

⁴ The au­thor­ity shall lim­it the op­er­at­ing li­cence to no more than five years.