Rechsteiner, DavidDavidRechsteiner2023-04-132023-04-132016-02-22https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/104660The available personnel and material resources are normally insufficient for special and exceptional situations. Simultaneously the situation is urgent. To address the problems of urgency and insufficient resources, the law provides special and exceptional legislative procedures. Additionally, the current law already contains certain provisions, designed to be applied to special and exceptional situations. The organisations which are employed for disaster response are regulated by current law. Aside from the emergency organisations (police, fire and health care) and the technical services, which are designed for normal situations, disasters are dealt with by the protection and support service, the army, and to some extent the civilian service. Additionally the law of many cantons contains official duties for the general population, private specialised personnel and state employees to participate in disaster response. Certain disaster response measures like requisitions and evacuations are also provided for by current law. Other measures can be based on the general police powers clause or other general clauses, which can be found in the civil protection and disaster laws of the cantons. If there is no legal basis and more than individual measures are required, enactments can be passed by emergency legislation. The emergency legislation contains, among others things, emergency (federal) acts and notably measures to speed up procedures for any kind of legislation. In cases of increased urgency, the executive is allowed to issue emergency ordinances and decrees for the purpose of disaster response. Such emergency ordinances and decrees can temporarily depart from inadequate acts. If a disaster is of such intensity that it threatens the life of the nation, it is even allowed to enact extraconstitutional law. This law may violate constitutional provisions, but has to respect the essence of fundamental rights and the requirements for the derogation of human rights.deKatastrophenschutzrechtNotrechtDringlichkeitsrechtPolizeiliche GeneralklauselNotverordnungenNotverfügungenExtrakonstitutionelles NotrechtVollmachtenrechtbesondere Lagenausserordentliche LagenDienstpflichtendoctoral thesis