Implementing Provisions to the Cantonal Water Protection Ordinance (ABzKGSchV)(815.210).

The Ordinance designates the competent cantonal authorities and allocates permitting powers for measures under federal and cantonal water‑protection law. The Office for Nature and Environment is assigned specified permits relating to water abstractions, floodplain design exceptions, covering or culverting of watercourses, depositions in lakes, reservoir flushing, and certain extraction activities, while some agricultural exceptions in the watercourse zone fall to the Office for Agriculture and Geoinformation. Transitional rules address pending and extension applications, and the text includes formal adoption and amendment references.