Art. 29

(Art. 22 WRFA)

1. The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) is the federal supervisory authority.
2. The main duties of the SFOE are as follows:
   1. direct supervision of large water retaining facilities and water retaining facilities on bodies of water bordering neighbouring countries;
   2. overall supervision of water retaining facilities subject to supervision by the cantons;
   3. issuing guidelines and preparing other technical documents in cooperation with the cantons, universities, professional organisations and industry;
   4. promoting research;
   5. securing expertise in cooperation with universities, cantons and professional organisations, and in particular ensuring the basic and continuing education and training of specialists and experts;
   6. ensuring an exchange of information at international level.
3. The SFOE shall provide the cantons concerned with the following documentation in particular:
   1. rulings by means of which it declares water retaining facilities subject to the WRFA (Art. 2) or exempts them from the application of the Act (Art. 3);
   2. the list of water retaining facilities that are subject to its supervision and are currently in operation (Art. 22 para. 1; Article 24 WRFA);
   3. planning approvals for the construction and modification of facilities under its direct supervision, unless approval exists in accordance with other legislation (Art. 6 WRFA);
   4. acceptance reports produced after completion of construction work of facilities under its direct supervision (Art. 11 para. 3);
   5. licences for commissioning facilities under its direct supervision (Art. 7 WRFA);
   6. other rulings it issues in order to ensure safety of facilities under its direct supervision (Art. 32; Art. 8 WRFA).