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

¹ Re­moved top­soil and sub­soil must be re­covered in full if pos­sible provided:

a.

it is suit­able for the in­ten­ded re­cov­ery ow­ing to its prop­er­ties;

b.

it meets the bench­mark val­ues in An­nexes 1 and 2 of the Or­din­ance of 1 Ju­ly 1998¹⁹ on the Pol­lu­tion of Soil (SoilPO); and

c.

it does not con­tain for­eign sub­stances or in­vas­ive ali­en or­gan­isms.

² In the case of re­cov­ery, the top­soil and sub­soil must be pro­cessed in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 6 and 7 SoilPO.