RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SWITZERLAND AND THE EUROPEAN UNION 28 August 2026 – Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland The 2026 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Energy Law Association (SELA), organised in cooperation with the Center for Law and Sustainability at the University of Lucerne, brought academics, regulators, practitioners and energy-sector representatives to USI’s East Campus…
The Swiss Energy Law Association is pleased to announce its upcoming conference, organised in collaboration with and hosted by the USI Università della Svizzera italiana: 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝘙𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘻𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘰𝘯 📅 Friday, 28 August 2026 🕥 10:30-18:00 📍 USI East Campus, Sector D, Room D0.03,…
By Katarina Mirkovic On 7 January 2026, the Secretary-General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) registered a request for arbitration filed by Hiroshi Osumi (Japan) against the Swiss Confederation (ICSID Case No. ARB/26/1). Under ICSID practice, registration is an institutional act by the Secretariat confirming the formal receivability of the request.…
The Swiss Energy Law Association is pleased to invite you to its next SELA Energy Lunch, dedicated to recent developments in hydrogen law and policy in the European Union and Switzerland. Hydrogen is becoming one of the key regulatory questions of the energy transition. Beyond infrastructure and technology, its development raises increasingly concrete legal issues,…
By Katarina Mirkovic On 17 December 2025, the Cantonal Court of Zug issued an interim ruling (Zwischenentscheid) in case A1 2023 9, dispatched to the parties on 18 December and made public on 22 December 2025, holding that a climate-related civil claim brought by four residents of Pari Island, Indonesia, against Holcim AG satisfies the…
On 16 April, SELA hosted the webinar “The Evolution of Power Purchase Agreements in a Comparative Perspective: The Italian and the Swiss Experiences”, as part of its Energy Lunch series. The webinar featured two speakers who addressed the topic of Power Purchase Agreements from complementary perspectives. Dr. Brigitta Kratz focused on the Swiss regulatory framework…
The PPA is no longer a contract you “close” – it’s a risk machine you engineer. Join Swiss Energy Law Association (SELA) for our first Energy Lunch of the year on “The evolution of Power Purchase Agreements in a comparative perspective: the Italian and the Swiss experiences”. As corporate PPAs evolve, so do the contractual…
We would like to extend a warm thank you to all speakers, moderators and participants for their contributions to the SELA Annual Meeting 2025, held on 27 November at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano. The event, jointly organised by SELA, USI and the La Suisse en Europe Association (ASE), focused on “The…
How could a future EU-CH electricity agreement influence Switzerland’s electricity system and its interaction with neighbouring markets? What might change for cross-border flows, grid stability and winter security of supply? These are some of the questions that will be at the centre of the Swiss Energy Law Association’s 2025 annual conference: The EU-CH Electricity Agreement:…
By Katarina Mirkovic The energy transition does not “disrupt” long-term energy contracts so much as it renders visible what they have always contained: an uneasy bargain between expectations of stability and the inevitability of regulatory evolution. If stability is treated as the immobilisation of the legal framework, it will predictably fail, and it will fail…