Federal Office for the Environment

The Federal Office for the Environment (German: Bundesamt für Umwelt; French: Office fédéral de l'environnement; Italian: Ufficio federale dell'ambiente) is the Swiss environmental agency, a division of the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications.It is responsible for matters of the environment, including the protection of plants and animals and the protection against noise, air pollution or natural hazards.The Federal Office for Environmental Protection was founded in 1971.In 1989, it was merged with the Federal Office for Forests and Landscape Protection to form the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape.In 2006, it was fused with the Federal Office for Water and Geology and renamed Federal Office for the Environment.
Building at Monbijoustrasse 40, Bern (since 2022)
Former building at Papiermühlestrasse 172, Ittigen (until 2022)
Federal administration of SwitzerlandSimonetta SommarugaFederal CouncillorFederal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and CommunicationsIttigenGermanFrenchItalianenvironmental agencyMarc ChardonnensBruno OberlePhilippe RochEnvironmental movement in SwitzerlandFederal Ethics Committee on Non-Human BiotechnologyNature parks in SwitzerlandWaste management in SwitzerlandBiodiversity Monitoring SwitzerlandHistorical Dictionary of Switzerland