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Mountain destination Skigaarden believes that state authorities lack a sufficiently concrete assessment of the infection situation in individual municipalities.
TRAVEL COMPANY: Skigaarden has built an apartment building in the Hemsedal ski center. In the photo of the 2018 season.
Halvard alvik
The Skigaarden apartment complex in Hemsedal is the largest accommodation and restaurant in the village. On Thursday afternoon, the company announced lawsuits against the Norwegian state since the government introduced strict measures in the 51 municipalities of Viken.
– If the government chooses not to change the regulations, we have no choice but to take legal action, says Erik Teigen, general manager of Skigaarden in Hemsedal in the report.
Teigen is surprised that the national authorities have taken the step of “cutting all the municipalities of the Bay into one hill,” but he says he respects the fact that the threat must be dealt with quickly and with reinforced measures.
– This affects the entire Hemsedal business community. We must also have a life after the pandemic. Therefore, there must be a bigger local government than now. I ask the politicians to use their power and reverse the decision that has been made, to make it a local self-government. Hemsedal should be the one to decide whether it should be open or closed. I will faithfully follow the decisions made by the municipality, Teigen tells E24.
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– Deeply unfair
According to the press release, good infection control work has taken care of the jobs and the business community in Hemsedal. Skigaarden now believes that the new national measures affect local actors for hard.
Erik Teigen owns and runs the tourism business in the mountain town. In Thursday’s message, he says that it is difficult to lose a secure income and not have a job to go to.
– The consequences are violent for many, and it feels deeply unfair when it derives from measures that are not based on the situation in the municipality. Therefore, we now choose to sue the state, Teigen says.
FJELLTOPP: Erik Teigen is the CEO of Skigaarden and owns the company through Fjellteigen AS.
Ski slopes
Doubts of proportionality
“The measures taken by the authorities must be precise, proportionate and not exceed what is necessary. Failure to comply with these requirements is the starting point of the notified claim “, it says in the message.
The lawyer representing Skigaarden believes that it is important to clarify the case to clearly show the proportionality surrounding the measures.
– We have announced a temporary court order and that the regulations be modified for the municipalities with documented control of the situation, such as Hemsedal and the other municipalities of Hallingdal, says lawyer Aksel Joachim Hageler.
– How the decision affects Hemsedal and Hallingdal are good examples of the lack of proportionality in the measures, and of the seriousness of the consequences of the measures, it continues.
Read the press release here
Appelled country house
In relation to the notified demand, the Ministry of Health refers to the prosecutor, who has not yet responded to E24’s query.
Norwegians with huts in Sweden recently won a case against the state in the Oslo District Court. They demanded that it be possible to spend the night in their own properties in Sweden without having to be quarantined when they returned home. The state has appealed the case.
