Switzerland

Work together with cantons to speed up permitting of energy projects of national interest. 

Encourage the cantons to harmonise and accelerate permitting processes, improve spatial planning for renewables, and remove legal barriers. 

Ensure timely preparation for the period after 2030 by starting to conceptualise the measures that need to be included in a new draft CO2 Act for the post-2030 period. 

Introduce basic gas market regulation. 

Establish an energy efficiency first principle in the energy and climate legislation to ensure it is considered and implemented in all relevant policies and plans. 

Align its electricity market regulations with those in the European Union, including on full market opening, while preserving the system of electricity supplies of last resort, and prepare for the legal integration of Switzerland into the EU internal market.