SoiLEX - Soil related legal instruments and soil governance
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- Federal Act on the Protection of the Environment. Date of text: 07-10-1983
(National) - Ordonnance sur les atteintes portées aux sols (OSol). Date of text: 01-07-1998
(National) - Environment Protection Law – Basel-Landschaft. Date of text: 27-02-1991
(Basel-Landschaft) - Ordonnance sur la protection des sols. Date of text: 20-08-2002
(Fribourg) - Ordonnance sur la protection des sols. Date of text: 11-12-2007
(Jura) - Environment Protection Ordinance. Date of text: 15-12-1998
(Luzern) - Law on water, soil and waste (Water, Soil, Waste Law). Date of text: 04-03-2009
(Solothurn) - Ordinance implementing the federal environmental legislation. Date of text: 13-12-2011
(St. Gallen) - Loi sur la protection de l'environnement (LcPE). Date of text: 18-11-2010
(Valais)
- Rčglement sur la protection des sols (RSol). Date of text: 16-01-2008
(Genčve) - Ordinance on water, soil and waste (Water, Soil, Waste Ordinance). Date of text: 22-09-2009
(Solothurn)
- Dekret über Bodenverbesserungen Date of text: 21-06-1957
(Aargau) - Ordinance on the implementation of soil improvement (Soil Improvements Ordinance). Date of text: 15-06-2010
(Basel-Landschaft) - Law on improvements in the Canton Graubünden. Date of text: 05-04-1981
(Graubünden) - Ordinance on agricultural and forestry cooperatives and individual measures to improve soil. Date of text: 28-06-1979
(Schwyz) - Ordinance on soil improvement in agriculture (Soil Improvement Ordinance). Date of text: 24-08-2004
(Solothurn) - Law on improvement of soil and agricultural buildings (Soil Improvement Law). Date of text: 02-05-1988
(Thurgau) - Introductory Law relating to the Federal Agriculture Act, the Agricultural Lease Act and Agricultural Soil Act (Introductory Law – Agriculture). Date of text: 29-06-2000
(Zug) - Cantonal Soil Improvement Ordinance. Date of text: 28-11-1979
(Zürich)
- Ordinance on the Introductory Law concerning the confederate legislation on environment and water protection. Date of text: 14-05-2008
(Aargau) - Rčglement sur la protection des sols (RSol). Date of text: 16-01-2008
(Genčve) - Ordonnance sur les atteintes portées aux sols (OSol). Date of text: 01-07-1998
(National)
- Rčglement sur l'agroécologie (RAgrEco). Date of text: 15-12-2010
(Vaud) - Environment Protection Law – Basel-Landschaft. Date of text: 27-02-1991
(Basel-Landschaft)
- Ordinance by the governing Council relating to the Law on improvement of soil and agricultural buildings (Soil Improvement Ordinance). Date of text: 02-07-1991
(Thurgau)
- Federal Act on Spatial Planning Date of text: 22-06-1979
(National) - Building Proceedings Ordinance. Date of text: 03-12-1997
(Zürich)
- Ordinance on the Avoidance and the Disposal of Waste. Date of text: 04-12-2005
(National) - Ordonnance relative ŕ la taxe pour l’assainissement des sites contaminés (OTAS). Date of text: 26-09-2008
(National) - Ordonnance sur l’assainissement des sites pollués (Ordonnance sur les sites contaminés, OSites). Date of text: 26-08-1998
(National) - Soil Protection Ordinance. Date of text: 05-07-2005
(Basel-Stadt) - Rčglement sur les sites pollués (RSites). Date of text: 04-06-2013
(Fribourg) - Loi d'application de la législation fédérale sur les sites contaminés. Date of text: 31-01-2003
(Genčve) - Arręté sur les sites pollués (AsiPol). Date of text: 11-02-2009
(Neuchâtel) - Ordinance on water, soil and waste (Water, Soil, Waste Ordinance). Date of text: 22-09-2009
(Solothurn) - Rčglement sur la gestion du fonds cantonal pour les investigations préalables des sites présumés pollués. Date of text: 13-12-2006
(Valais) - Loi sur l'assainissement des sites pollués (LASP). Date of text: 17-01-2006
(Vaud) - Federal Act on the Protection of the Environment. Date of text: 07-10-1983
(National) - Ordonnance sur les atteintes portées aux sols (OSol). Date of text: 01-07-1998
(National) - Ordinance on the Introductory Law concerning the confederate legislation on environment and water protection. Date of text: 14-05-2008
(Aargau) - Law on water, soil and waste (Water, Soil, Waste Law). Date of text: 04-03-2009
(Solothurn)
- Environment Protection Law – Basel-Landschaft. Date of text: 27-02-1991
(Basel-Landschaft)
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