Federal Office for the Environment FOEN
Legal Affairs
Postal address:
CH-3003 Bern
Location of our offices:
Monbijoustrasse 40, 3003 Bern
Tel.: +41 58 462 93 45
Contact
Tasks and topics
The Legal Affairs Division is responsible for the legal aspects of all the tasks performed by FOEN in every area of environmental protection (preparation and application of legislation, supervision of enforcement, information and international affairs).
The division is responsible for the topic:
Management
Daniel Roth
Position: head of Legal Affairs Division
Salome Sidler
Position: head of section Legal Service 1, deputy head of division
Tasks: species, ecosystems, landscape, forestry, biotechnology, organism, programme agreements
Maurus Bärlocher
Position: head of section Legal Service 2
Tasks: air, noise, electrosmog, climate, procedures (environmental impact assessment, right of collective appeal), economics, information, EU law
Jan Boltshauser
Position: head of section Legal Service 3
Tasks: waste, contaminated sites, soil, water, chemicals, natural hazards, incidents, hydrology, enforcement supervision, enforcement reinforcement, criminal law
Last modification 22.11.2023
