Политико-правовые особенности организации деятельности в сфере использования возобновляемых источников энергии в Швейцарии

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Е.М. Кологерманская
16 Гуманитарный вестник # 11·2017
Political and legal features of organizing the activities
in regard to the use of renewable energy sources
in Switzerland
© E.M. Kologermanskaya
Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, 426034, Russia
The article analyzes political and legal features of organizing the activities concerning
the use of renewable energy sources in Switzerland. We outline the relevance of applying
the renewable energy as the safest one for the environment and natural resources as well
as for the people’s health and quality of life. The cases of nuclear (atomic) power engi-
neering destructive impact are described. The selection of the Swiss laws in the discussed
field is based on the idea that this state has developed the renewable energy policy repre-
senting the basis for the legal regulation of relations in the considered area. Besides,
there are state authorities of general and special competence whose vicarial powers in
the specified area are clearly defined. The article investigates the provisions of such po-
litical documents as the Renewable energy action plan adopted in 2008 and the Energy
Strategy 2050 adopted in 2011 that establish the trends in the state of internal and exter-
nal energy policy. We consider the major juridical definitions for such notions as the
renewable energy sources, etc. The basic enactments regulating different aspects of de-
veloping the renewable energy in Switzerland are examined, in particular, the Constitu-
tion of Switzerland (1999), The Energy Act (1998), the Energy Ordinance (1998) and The
Electricity Supply Act (2007).
Keywords: renewable energy sources, renewable energy, energy law, energy law in Swit-
zerland, electrical power engineering, the energy strategy of Switzerland
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