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641.711Federal Council ordinanceDeleteCompleted

Verordnung vom 30. November 2012 über die Reduktion der CO<sub>2</sub>-Emissionen (CO<sub>2</sub>-Verordnung)

Federal Council ordinanceLanguage DEDocument 30 November 2012In force 1 January 2013
Published verdict
Delete

The law looks obsolete, unjustified, or duplicative.

Summary

This CO2 Ordinance implements emission-reduction policy for multiple greenhouse gases, sets sectoral interim targets, and creates an extensive administrative system for certifying domestic and foreign emission-reduction and carbon-sink projects. It relies on detailed eligibility rules, state-approved validators and verifiers, BAFU approvals, monitoring and reporting duties, crediting periods, land-register annotations for carbon storage, and the possibility of further measures if targets are missed.

Verdict reason
The ordinance is a sprawling command-and-control and subsidy-certification regime built on bureaucratic validation, verification, reporting, and discretionary approvals. The text itself shows obsolete elements, including 2015 interim targets and repealed sections, while the surviving machinery channels climate policy through administrative gatekeeping rather than clear, general institutions. That means compliance burden, politicized allocation, and distorted investment choices with no case in the packet that Swiss citizens would be materially worse off if this entire ordinance disappeared.
Review details
Status
Completed
Model
gpt-5.4
Method
better-switzerland-v2
Attempts
1
Input tokens
8354
Output tokens
202
Total tokens
8556
Estimated cost
$0.0239
Record metadata
Document date
30 November 2012
Entry into force
1 January 2013
Applicability
25 October 2023
Type
Federal Council ordinance
Display ID
641.711
Canonical record
https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/cc/2012/856
Family URI
https://fedlex.data.admin.ch/eli/cc/2012/856
Language
DE
Indexed sections (220)
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