Rowan Morrell (asker) Nov 16, 2005:

What Happened To Close Without Grading? The "Close Without Grading" option seems to have disappeared, and you now have to decline all answers. Can't say I like this particular innovation, even though I like a lot of the changes that have been made to KudoZ.

Anyway, from that 5th clause it seems the "Abnahmen" were actually payments, so it does seem that, in this specific context, Abnahmepflichten is obligations to pay.

None of the answers were very convincing, so I just couldn't decide which one to select. Nonetheless, I do thank you for your efforts and apologise for taking so long to close the question.

Adrian MM. (X) Nov 1, 2005:

OK Rowan. Walter, shouldn't you be agreeing with me?

Parzival Nov 1, 2005:

The operator of a public sewage system (Kanalisation) is by law obliged to accept polluted water into the system /to take it away and process it. With clean water such obligation would fall away - see for instance: www.admin.ch/ch/d/sr/814_20/a11.html

Rowan Morrell (asker) Nov 1, 2005:

Tom I've quoted the entire clause. I could quote Clause 5, but I'm dealing with a PDF document that I can't copy and paste, so I have to type everything out when providing context, which is rather tedious. Clause 5 does refer to "Abnahmen" as a kind of concrete noun though.