Professor Carl Baudenbacher has testified before the Committee for Economic Affairs and Taxes of the National Council (the Grand Chamber) of the Swiss Parliament

Professor Carl Baudenbacher has on 12 February 2024 testified before the Committee for Economic Affairs and Taxes of the National Council (the Grand Chamber) of the Swiss Parliament on whether Switzerland should in future accept the dispute settlement model of the Association Agreements of the EU with the former Soviet republics of Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Armenia. This model, which is based on a pro forma arbitration tribunal that must request a binding judgment from the ECJ if EU law is “implied”, was also discussed in the UK during the Brexit years. It is part of the Withdrawal Agreement, but was ultimately rejected for the TCA. However, the UK has left the single market, while the Swiss government wants to keep its country in the single market.

Carl Baudenbacher’s written paper can be found here.