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

¹ The can­tons shall im­ple­ment this Or­din­ance, un­less they as­sign im­ple­ment­a­tion to the Con­fed­er­a­tion.

² If fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies are re­quired to ap­ply oth­er fed­er­al acts or in­ter­na­tion­al law agree­ments or de­cisions that re­late to mat­ters reg­u­lated in this Or­din­ance, they shall also im­ple­ment this Or­din­ance. Art­icle 41 para­graphs 2 and 4 EPA gov­ern the in­volve­ment of the FOEN and the can­tons; stat­utory du­ties of con­fid­en­ti­al­ity are re­served.