Federal Act
on Private International Law
(PILA)

¹ Claims arising from nuc­le­ar in­cid­ents are gov­erned by Swiss law.

² If the nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion of the op­er­at­or li­able is loc­ated in a con­tract­ing state to the Par­is Con­ven­tion⁸³, the law of that con­tract­ing state de­term­ines:

a.

wheth­er the li­ab­il­ity of the op­er­at­or for nuc­le­ar dam­age ex­tends bey­ond the scope spe­cified in Art­icle 2 para­graph (b) of the Con­ven­tion;

b.

wheth­er and to what ex­tent com­pens­a­tion is giv­en for nuc­le­ar dam­age in the cases men­tioned in Art­icle 9 of the Con­ven­tion.

³ Para­graph 2 ap­plies by ana­logy to the op­er­at­or of a nuc­le­ar in­stall­a­tion that is not loc­ated in a con­tract­ing state to the Par­is Con­ven­tion provided this state provides at least equi­val­ent rules in re­la­tion to Switzer­land.