title: Legal and political aspects of the regulation of chemicals: Swiss environmental protection law.
abstract: The premises for regulations in the field of ecology demonstrate clear scientific deficiency regarding basic relations in technical and scientific aspects but also a deep political disagreement on how to cope with them. These characteristics result in a new kind of law whose prime notion is to satisfy a social concern. The Swiss ecology regulation may be qualified as a so-called "tentative legislation." The structure of this kind of legislation is shown in the use of unclear notions, goal-oriented rules, and deviation to governmental and administrative regulation and may even lead to a more or less symbolic use of legislation.
mesh_terms: D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D011057:Politics; D013557:Switzerland