Patrick Thommen

As the Federal Council informed on the occasion of its media conference on June 29, 2022, the current development of the Ukraine war leads to the considerable danger of a gas or methane gas shortage situation in Switzerland in the coming winter.
The gas shortage situation would lead to the quota of gas consumption of individual industrial enterprises. The interruption or reduction of gas supply would cause enormous damage to the industrial enterprises affected by it.

With the ordinance of January 13, 2021, the Federal Council, for the purpose of containing the COVID virus, introduced the home office obligation as of January 18, 2021, everywhere “where it is possible due to the nature of the activity and can be implemented with a proportionate effort.”