Com­pe­ti­tion & Reg­u­la­tory Af­fairs

Com­pe­ti­tion is the core el­e­ment of any mar­ket econ­omy. In order for it to work, an ef­fec­tive but rea­son­able en­force­ment of the rules on all eco­nomic op­er­a­tors is nec­es­sary. We sup­port ef­fec­tive com­pe­ti­tion based on trans­par­ent rules in all areas of eco­nomic pol­icy—along with the re­moval of trade bar­ri­ers, state sup­ported mo­nop­o­lies or price dis­tort­ing sub­si­dies. In the long run, busi­ness lo­ca­tion Switzer­land can­not con­tinue to play in the top league un­less it pro­motes com­pe­ti­tion and en­tre­pre­neur­ial ini­tia­tive.

Cre­at­ing an op­ti­mal en­vi­ron­ment for all sec­tors of the econ­omy is dif­fi­cult and re­quires po­lit­i­cal fi­nesse. While the legal frame­work must guar­an­tee legal cer­tainty and trans­parency it should also leave the great­est pos­si­ble scope for en­tre­pre­neur­ial ac­tiv­ity. Reg­u­la­tions de­signed to cover every con­ceiv­able risk choke off ini­tia­tive. In­stead of med­dling with the or­ga­ni­za­tion and op­er­a­tion of local com­pa­nies the gov­ern­ment should de­vise an op­ti­mal frame­work that al­lows Switzer­land to po­si­tion it­self as an at­trac­tive, re­li­able and, above all, legally valid busi­ness lo­ca­tion.