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Safety of ski resorts in Switzerland

Publication at Faculty of Law |
2020

Abstract

The article provides a brief insight into Swiss snow law, which deals specifically with the issue of regulating the safety of ski resorts in the operation of winter sports. Switzerland has not implemented any specific legislation in its legal system to regulate the safety of skiing and ski resorts, which is the subject of a number of expert discussions, especially in recent decades, when these leisure activities are significantly developed, ski resorts expand and complex complexity grows.

It provides a short excursion into the Swiss issues of safety in the operation of ski resorts and the operation of snow sports activities, describes the current legislation, decision-making practice of the articles of the Swiss judicial system, outlines possible starting points. The first part offers an insight into history, important data from which the need for special security regulations can be deduced and a brief description of the current state of legislation.

In the second part, the SKUS Directive, which can be considered the imaginary center of the relevant regulation, is presented in a comprehensible way, and the third part is devoted to the selection and brief analysis of Swiss case law.