Federal Soil Protection Act and Ordinance

Federal Soil Protection Act: Purpose and Principles of the Act

(BBodSchG - Bundes-Bodenschutzgesetz)
dated 17 March 1998

The purpose of this Act is to protect or restore the functions of the soil on a permanent sustainable basis. These actions shall include prevention of harmful soil changes (to the soil), rehabilitation of the soil, of contaminated sites and of waters contaminated by such sites; and precautions against negative soil impacts. Where impacts are made on the soil, disruptions of its natural functions and of its function.

Federal Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites Ordinance

(Bundes-Bodenschutz- und Altlastenverordnung - BBodSchV)
dated 12 July 1999

On the basis of Article 6, Article 8 (1) and (2) and Article 13 (1) second sentence of the Federal Soil Protection Act of 17 March 1998 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 502), the Federal Government, after hearing the parties concerned, decrees the following...