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This article summarises key amendments to Swiss environmental laws which either came into effect in recent months or will come into effect in the foreseeable future. This includes the Ordinance on Air Pollution Control, the Chemicals Risk Reduction Ordinance, the Gene Technology Act, the Ordinance on the Return, Take-Back and Disposal of Electrical and Electronic Equipment, the CO2 Act and the Environmental Protection Act, among others.

Previous developments To address the legal uncertainty relating to rent payments for business premises that had to close due to emergency regulations issued by the Federal Council to combat COVID-19, the Federal Council was asked to submit a draft act to Parliament reflecting the concerns of two identical motions from Parliament. Given the controversy surrounding the act, in September 2020 the Federal Council submitted the dispatch for the proposed COVID-19 Business Rental Act to Parliament without asking for adoption of the federal act. Parliamentary debates Both competent preparatory commit...