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Federal Act of 23 December 2011 on the Reduction of CO<sub>2</sub> Emissions (CO<sub>2</sub> Act)

Federal actLanguage DEDocument 23 December 2011In force 1 January 2013
Published verdict
Delete

The law looks obsolete, unjustified, or duplicative.

Summary

The CO2 Act implements climate-policy goals set elsewhere by imposing federal emissions-reduction targets for 2030, privileging domestic abatement, and empowering the Federal Council to define sectors, methods, certificates, and exceptions. In the excerpt, it builds a dense control regime through tradable certificates, reporting and disclosure duties, coordinated adaptation measures, cantonal building standards and registration duties, flight-emissions disclosure, vehicle fleet CO2 targets for importers and manufacturers, and financial sanctions for exceeding individual targets.

Verdict reason
This law is a broad command-and-control framework that layers targets, delegated rulemaking, reporting mandates, product standards, and sanctions across buildings, transport, and fuel markets. Even on its own terms, it relies on bureaucratic allocation and EU-linked compliance machinery rather than robust property-rights institutions, and the excerpt shows substantial compliance burden and market distortion with no hard-to-replicate institutional function that justifies keeping the act intact.
Review details
Status
Completed
Model
gpt-5.4
Method
better-switzerland-v2
Attempts
1
Input tokens
8655
Output tokens
204
Total tokens
8859
Estimated cost
$0.0247
Record metadata
Document date
23 December 2011
Entry into force
1 January 2013
Applicability
1 January 2025
Type
Federal act
Display ID
641.71
Canonical record
https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/cc/2012/855
Family URI
https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/cc/2012/855
Language
DE
Indexed sections (220)
Primary sources