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Fall into each other’s arms with bratwurst and beer in hand when your own club scores a goal. Sing at your favorite band’s concert at the top of your throat. Kissing and partying outdoors until dawn – vicious life friends long to finally break out again. Meanwhile, organizers of big events have other concerns: They finally want to get back to work. The basic requirement for this: planning security, for months and years.
In order for him to return as soon as possible, something important has happened these days: the approval of a vaccine against Covid-19.
On December 19, the Swiss Agency for Therapeutics, Swissmedic, gave the green light to the crown vaccine Pfizer / Biontech. The first people in Switzerland were vaccinated against Covid-19 this week. The entire population should receive a vaccine before summer, or at least as many as they want.
For football and ice hockey clubs, as well as concert, show and festival organizers, this raises a difficult question: should they open their doors only in the coming months to all those who are vaccinated against Covid-19?
With such regulation, they could possibly lift all other protective measures and finally regain planning security.
Vaccination also brings dangers
The Swiss Music Promoters Association (SMPA), the industry association for professional Swiss concert, show and festival organizers, is open-minded. When asked by SonntagsBlick if a mandatory vaccination for concerts, shows and festivals is an option, Managing Director Stefan Breitenmoser says: “A vaccination could one day be one of several measures to attend an event.”
However, mandatory vaccination carries dangers – the outcry from Corona rebels and vaccination skeptics would be guaranteed, and the average audience would probably not just be excited.
Those responsible are aware of the delicate initial situation. “It’s a very sensitive area that quickly raises ethical questions,” says Philippe Guggisberg, communications director for the Swiss Football League.
What consequences would the measures have?
The association does not want to compromise at the moment. Just this: “We are currently clarifying what the vaccine means for football, for players and for stadiums.” Countless questions would arise that football probably cannot answer on its own. It sounds similar in the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation.
It is also too early for the concert industry’s Breitenmoser to give a definitive answer to this question. First, more information is needed about the virus itself, the importance of rapid tests and protection by vaccines and its long-term effects. “Practice and acceptance in other areas of life will also be decisive.”
But would mandatory vaccination for major events be legally permissible? The federal government gives hope to the main event organizers. “In principle, it is not out of the question to legally treat vaccinated and unvaccinated people differently,” writes lawyer Ingrid Ryser representing the Federal Office of Justice and the Federal Office of Public Health.
Freedom of choice when entering into a contract.
The principle of private autonomy is applied in the relationship between two private persons, that is, also between the organizers and the visitors of an important event. “As long as nothing else is regulated, everyone has the freedom to decide who they want to contract with,” says Ryser. The situation is somewhat different in the field of state tasks. “There a legal regulation would be necessary if vaccinated and unvaccinated people should be treated differently.”
Ryser also emphasizes, however, that it is still too early to give generally valid answers as to whether and in what context unequal treatment of vaccinated and unvaccinated people may be permissible.
Last but not least, this has to do with the fact that there are still many unanswered questions about vaccination, for example about the protective effect: “Whether or not the vaccine can prevent vaccinated people from transmitting the virus it also changes the legal assessment, “Ryser said.
Therefore, the subject should occupy Switzerland for a while.
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