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Art. 3 Duty of care
The owner or operator of a facility with installations in accordance with Annex 1 must ensure that its information made available to the general public in the Register is complete, based on standard definitions and comprehensible.
Art. 4 Reporting requirement
The owner or operator of a facility with installations in accordance with Annex 1 shall submit to the Federal Office for the Environment (the FOEN) every year by 1 July the information referred to in Article 5 paragraph 1 if that facility in the previous calendar year: a. released a larger quantity of a pollutant into the air, water or land than the quantity stipulated in the form of a threshold value in Annex 2; b. transferred more than two tonnes of hazardous waste; c. transferred more than 2000 tonnes of other waste; or d. transferred a larger quantity of a pollutant in waste water than the quantity stipulated in the form of a threshold value for water in Annex 2.
Art. 5 Content of the report
1 The report must contain: a. the name, address and geographical coordinates of the facility and the installations in terms of Annex 1; b. the name and address of the owner or operator; c. the quantity of the pollutant that the facility released in the previous calendar year into the air, water, or land including its number (Annex 2 first column); d. the quantity of the hazardous waste that was transferred in the previous calendar year. An indication must be given, using the letter “R” or “D”, of whether the waste was destined for recovery or disposal respectively in terms of Annex 3; for the transborder transfer of hazardous waste, the name and address of the waste recovery or waste disposal facility as well as the address of the location of recovery or disposal must be provided; e. the quantity of other waste that was transferred in the previous calendar year. An indication must be given, using the letter “R” or “D”, of whether the waste was destined for recovery or disposal respecti
Art. 6 Retention obligation
1 The owners or operators of facilities with installations in accordance with Annex 1 must retain the collections of data from which the information submitted is derived for a period of five years following the report of the information. These collections must also contain details of the methods of recording the data. 2 The collections must be made available to the authorities on request.