Ordinance
on Forest
(Forest Ordinance, ForO)

(Art. 2 para. 4 ForA)

¹ The can­tons shall define the para­met­ers ac­cord­ing to which a wooded area is defined as forest, with­in the fol­low­ing ranges:

a.

area, in­clud­ing an ap­pro­pri­ate forest mar­gin: 200–800 m²;

b.

width, in­clud­ing an ap­pro­pri­ate forest mar­gin: 10–12 m;

c.

age of stands in newly col­on­ised areas: 10–20 years.

² If the stand ful­fils par­tic­u­larly im­port­ant so­cial or pro­tect­ive func­tions, it is defined as forest, ir­re­spect­ive of its area, its width or its age.

(Art. 2 para. 2 ForA)

Wooded pas­tures are areas con­sist­ing of a mo­sa­ic of wooded areas and open pas­tures and which ful­fil both live­stock hus­bandry and forestry pur­poses.

(Art. 2 para. 3 ForA)

¹ Check dams are struc­tures that hinder the nat­ur­al flow of wa­ter and cre­ate a back­wa­ter.

² The im­me­di­ate fore­ground of a check dam is the ter­rain bor­der­ing the in­stall­a­tion on the air­side. It nor­mally cov­ers a 10-metre-wide strip.

(Art. 4 and 12 ForA)

The fol­low­ing are not defined as de­for­est­a­tion:

a.

the use of forest land for forestry build­ings and in­stall­a­tions and for small struc­tures and in­stall­a­tions not used for forestry pur­poses;

b.

the al­loc­a­tion of forest to a pro­tec­tion zone in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 17 of the Spa­tial Plan­ning Act of 22 June 1979³ (SPA), if the pro­tec­tion ob­ject­ive is com­pat­ible with forest con­ser­va­tion.

¹ In the case of works for which the Con­fed­er­a­tion is the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity, the de­for­est­a­tion ap­plic­a­tion must be sub­mit­ted to the lead fed­er­al au­thor­ity, and in the case of works for which the can­ton is the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity, the de­for­est­a­tion ap­plic­a­tion must be sub­mit­ted to the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity un­der can­ton­al law.

² The au­thor­ity shall pub­lish the ap­plic­a­tion and provide ac­cess to the files for con­sulta­tion.

³ The Fed­er­al Of­fice for the En­vir­on­ment⁵ (the FOEN⁶) shall is­sue guidelines on the con­tents of a de­for­est­a­tion ap­plic­a­tion.

¹ If the Con­fed­er­a­tion is re­spons­ible for the de­for­est­a­tion per­mit, the co­oper­a­tion between the FOEN and the can­tons is sub­ject to Art­icle 49 para­graph 2 ForA. The can­tons shall sup­port the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies in the cla­ri­fic­a­tion of the facts.

² In­cluded in the cal­cu­la­tion of the de­for­est­a­tion area, based on which the ob­lig­a­tion to hear the FOEN (Art. 6 para. 2 ForA) is de­term­ined, are all de­for­est­a­tion areas that:

a.

are in­cluded in the de­for­est­a­tion ap­plic­a­tion;

b.

were de­for­es­ted for the same works in the 15 years pre­vi­ous to the sub­mis­sion of the de­for­est­a­tion ap­plic­a­tion, or for which de­for­est­a­tion is still al­lowed.

¹ The de­for­est­a­tion de­cision cov­ers the fol­low­ing:

a.

the areas in which de­for­est­a­tion is au­thor­ised or re­fused and the af­fected plots with spe­cific­a­tion of the co­ordin­ates;

b.

the nature and scope of the com­pens­at­ory meas­ures and the af­fected plots with spe­cific­a­tion of the co­ordin­ates;

c.

the dead­lines for the use of the de­for­est­a­tion per­mit and for the ful­fil­ment of the ob­lig­a­tions as­so­ci­ated with the de­for­est­a­tion, in par­tic­u­lar those in­volving com­pens­at­ory meas­ures;

d.

the un­re­solved ob­jec­tions;

e.

any fur­ther con­di­tions and re­quire­ments.

² The FOEN shall keep stat­ist­ics on the de­for­est­a­tion pro­jects au­thor­ised by the Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons. The can­tons shall make the ne­ces­sary in­form­a­tion avail­able to the FOEN.⁸

(Art. 7 para. 1 ForA)⁹

¹ Com­pens­a­tion in kind is made by cre­at­ing an area of forest of the same size in a loc­a­tion of­fer­ing qual­it­at­ively sim­il­ar con­di­tions to the de­for­es­ted area.

² Com­pens­a­tion in kind in­cludes the ac­quis­i­tion of the land, the plant­ing and all of the meas­ures ne­ces­sary for the long-term safe­guard­ing of the com­pens­at­ory area.

³ Areas in which forest is ex­pand­ing and vol­un­tar­ily af­for­es­ted areas which have not yet be­come forest may be re­cog­nised as com­pens­a­tion in kind.

(Art. 7 para. 2 let. a ForA)

The can­tons shall des­ig­nate areas with in­creas­ing forest area after con­sult­ing the FOEN. Their bound­ar­ies shall be based on fed­er­al and can­ton­al sur­veys, in prin­ciple fol­low­ing to­po­graph­ic­al fea­tures and tak­ing ac­count of ex­ist­ing set­tle­ments and uses.

(Art. 7 para. 2 let. b ForA)¹¹

¹ Com­pens­a­tion in kind may be dis­pensed with in par­tic­u­lar in the case of crop ro­ta­tion areas.¹²

² Areas of par­tic­u­lar eco­lo­gic­al value are, in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

bi­otopes in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 18 para­graph 1^bis of the Fed­er­al Act of 1 Ju­ly 1966¹³ on the Pro­tec­tion of Nature and Cul­tur­al Her­it­age;

b.

areas des­ig­nated as nature pro­tec­tion areas in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 17 SPA¹⁴.

³ Areas of par­tic­u­lar land­scape value are, in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

ob­jects of na­tion­al im­port­ance in ac­cord­ance with the Or­din­ance of 10 Au­gust 1977¹⁵ on the Fed­er­al In­vent­ory of Land­scapes and Nat­ur­al Monu­ments of Na­tion­al Im­port­ance;

b.

mire land­scapes of out­stand­ing beauty and na­tion­al im­port­ance in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 24^sex­ies para­graph 5 of the Fed­er­al Con­sti­tu­tion of the Swiss Con­fed­er­a­tion¹⁶;

c.

areas des­ig­nated as land­scape pro­tec­tion zones in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 17 SPA.

(Art. 7 para. 3 let. b ForA)

Com­pens­a­tion for de­for­est­a­tion may be dis­pensed with in the case of pro­jects to guar­an­tee flood pro­tec­tion and the re­hab­il­it­a­tion of wa­ters in par­tic­u­lar in the case of areas that can no longer be stocked as forest.

¹ At the re­quest of the com­pet­ent can­ton­al forest au­thor­ity, a re­cord must be made in the land re­gister of the ob­lig­a­tion to provide:¹⁹

a.

com­pens­a­tion in kind or meas­ures for the be­ne­fit of nature and land­scape con­ser­va­tion;

b.

ret­ro­spect­ive com­pens­a­tion for de­for­est­a­tion in the event of a change of use in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 7 para­graph 4 ForA.²⁰

² The can­tons shall mon­it­or all com­pens­at­ory meas­ures and no­ti­fy the FOEN of the fi­nal ap­prov­al of the works.

(Art. 10 para. 1 ForA)²²

¹ The rul­ing on de­clar­a­tion as forest re­cords wheth­er a stocked or un­stocked area is a forest or not and spe­cifies its co­ordin­ates.

² It spe­cifies on a map the loc­a­tion and size of the forest and the loc­a­tion of the af­fected plots.

(Art. 10 para. 2 let. b ForA)

Areas where the can­ton wants to pre­vent an in­crease in forest must be spe­cified in the can­ton­al struc­ture plan.

¹ Forest roads may be ac­cessed by mo­tor­ised vehicu­lar traffic for the fol­low­ing pur­poses:

a.

for res­cue and re­cov­ery pur­poses;

b.

for po­lice con­trols;

c.

for mil­it­ary ex­er­cises;

d.

for the im­ple­ment­a­tion of meas­ures for the pro­tec­tion against nat­ur­al events;

e.²⁴

for the main­ten­ance of the net­work lines of the pro­viders of tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vices.

² The rest of the forest may only be ac­cessed by mo­tor­ised vehicu­lar traffic if such ac­cess is un­avoid­able for the ful­fil­ment of a pur­pose in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1.

³ Events in­volving vehicu­lar mo­tor­ised traffic are pro­hib­ited on forest roads and in the rest of the forest.

(Art. 2 para. 2 let. b and 11 para. 1 ForA)

¹ Forest struc­tures and in­stall­a­tions, such as forest main­ten­ance de­pots, log stores, covered wood fuel stores and forest roads may be con­struc­ted or altered with of­fi­cial per­mis­sion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 22 SPA²⁷.²⁸

² A re­quire­ment for per­mis­sion is that:

a.

the struc­tures and in­stall­a­tions fa­cil­it­ate re­gion­al forest man­age­ment;

b.

a need is proven for the struc­tures and in­stall­a­tions, their loc­a­tion is suit­able and their size is ad­ap­ted to re­gion­al con­di­tions; and

c.

there is no over­rid­ing pub­lic in­terest in re­fus­ing per­mis­sion.

³ Oth­er re­quire­ments un­der fed­er­al or can­ton­al law also ap­ply.

(Art. 11 para. 1 and 16 ForA)²⁹

¹ The grant­ing of per­mis­sion for the con­struc­tion of forestry build­ings or in­stall­a­tions in the forest in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 22 SPA³⁰is sub­ject to a hear­ing of the com­pet­ent can­ton­al forestry au­thor­ity.

² Ex­cep­tion­al per­mis­sion for the con­struc­tion of small struc­tures and in­stall­a­tions in the forest that are not used for forestry pur­poses in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 24 SPA may only be gran­ted in agree­ment with the com­pet­ent can­ton­al forestry au­thor­ity.

¹ The can­tons shall com­pile the ba­sic doc­u­ment­a­tion re­quired for pro­tec­tion. They shall:

a.

keep in­vent­or­ies of build­ings and in­stall­a­tions that that are of rel­ev­ance in provid­ing pro­tec­tion against nat­ur­al events (pro­tect­ive struc­ture re­gister);

b.

doc­u­ment events caus­ing dam­age (event re­gister) and ana­lyse, if re­quired, lar­ger events caus­ing dam­age;

c.

pre­pare haz­ard maps and emer­gency plans for po­ten­tial events, and up­date these reg­u­larly.³¹

² When com­pil­ing this ba­sic doc­u­ment­a­tion, they shall take in­to ac­count the work car­ried out by spe­cial­ist fed­er­al agen­cies and their tech­nic­al guidelines.

³ The can­tons shall take ac­count of this doc­u­ment­a­tion in all their activ­it­ies with a spa­tial im­pact, in par­tic­u­lar struc­tur­al and land-use plan­ning.

⁴ They shall make this doc­u­ment­a­tion avail­able to the FOEN on re­quest and make then ac­cess­ible to the gen­er­al pub­lic in a suit­able form.³²

¹ Where ne­ces­sary for the pro­tec­tion of hu­man life and sig­ni­fic­ant ma­ter­i­al as­sets, the can­tons shall set up early warn­ing ser­vices. They shall en­sure the de­vel­op­ment and op­er­a­tion of the re­lated mon­it­or­ing sta­tions and in­form­a­tion sys­tems.

² When set­ting up and op­er­at­ing the early warn­ing ser­vices, they shall take in­to ac­count the work car­ried out by spe­cial­ist fed­er­al agen­cies and their tech­nic­al guidelines.

³ They shall en­sure that the data from the mon­it­or­ing sta­tions and in­form­a­tion sys­tems are made avail­able to the FOEN on re­quest, and are made ac­cess­ible to the gen­er­al pub­lic in a suit­able form.³³

(Art. 19 ForA)

¹ The se­cur­ing of haz­ard areas in­cludes:

a.

sil­vi­cul­tur­al meas­ures;

b.

struc­tur­al meas­ures for the pre­ven­tion of dam­age due to ava­lanches, as well as, in ex­cep­tion­al cases, the erec­tion of in­stall­a­tions for pre­vent­ive ava­lanche re­lease;

c.

ac­com­pa­ny­ing meas­ures in tor­rents chan­nels which are linked to forest con­ser­va­tion (tor­rent con­trol works in forests);

d.

land­slide and gully con­trol struc­tures, the cor­res­pond­ing drain­age works and erosion pro­tec­tion;

e.

rock­fall and rock ava­lanche con­trol struc­tures, re­ten­tion struc­tures, as well as, in ex­cep­tion­al cases, the pre­vent­ive re­lease of ma­ter­i­al at risk of fall­ing;

f.

the re­mov­al to a safe loc­a­tion of build­ings and in­stall­a­tions at risk.

² The works shall if pos­sible be com­bined with bio­lo­gic­al en­gin­eer­ing and sil­vi­cul­tur­al meas­ures.

³ The can­tons shall en­sure that plan­ning is in­teg­rated; in par­tic­u­lar, the plan­ning shall bal­ance the in­terests of forest man­age­ment, nature and land­scape pro­tec­tion, hy­draul­ic en­gin­eer­ing, ag­ri­cul­ture and spa­tial plan­ning.

(Art. 20 para. 2 ForA)

¹ The can­tons shall is­sue reg­u­la­tions for the plan­ning of forest man­age­ment. These shall define, in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the types of plans and their con­tent;

b.

the in­stances re­spons­ible for plan­ning;

c.

the plan­ning goals;

d.

how the plan­ning data are ac­quired and used;

e.

the plan­ning and con­trol pro­ced­ures;

f.

the reg­u­lar re­view­ing of the plans.

² The forestry plan­ning doc­u­ments must de­scribe, at least, the loc­a­tion con­di­tions as well as the forest func­tions and their im­port­ance.

³ In the case of in­ter­op­er­a­tion­al plan­ning, the can­tons shall en­sure that the pop­u­la­tion:

a.

is in­formed of the goals and pro­gress of the plan­ning;

b.

may be in­volved in a suit­able man­ner;

c.

may in­spect it.

⁴ They shall take ac­count of the spa­tial im­pact of forestry plan­ning in their struc­tur­al plan­ning.³⁴

(Art. 20 ForA)

¹ All main­ten­ance in­ter­ven­tions that con­trib­ute to the con­ser­va­tion or res­tor­a­tion of the sta­bil­ity and the qual­ity of a stand are clas­si­fied as sil­vi­cul­tur­al meas­ures.

² Meas­ures car­ried out as part of young forest main­ten­ance are:

a.³⁵

young growth main­ten­ance, thick­et main­ten­ance and stem thin­ning in or­der to cre­ate res­ist­ant and ad­apt­able stands suit­able to the loc­a­tion;

b.

spe­cif­ic meas­ures to main­tain re­growth in se­lec­tion forests, in oth­er multi-layered forests, in cop­pices with stand­ards and cop­pice forests as well as in multi-layered forest mar­gins;

c.

pro­tect­ive meas­ures against dam­age caused by game;

d.

the cre­ation of paths in areas of dif­fi­cult ac­cess.

³ Thin­ning and re­gen­er­a­tion meas­ures are:

a.

slash re­mov­al and the cre­ation of new stands and the ne­ces­sary ac­com­pa­ny­ing meas­ures;

b.

wood har­vest­ing and trans­port.

⁴ Min­im­um main­ten­ance meas­ures for con­serving the pro­tect­ive func­tion of the forest are main­ten­ance in­ter­ven­tions that are re­stric­ted to en­sur­ing the long-term sta­bil­ity of the stand; felled wood is used loc­ally or left on site, as long as it does not pose a risk.

(Art. 22 ForA)

¹ Clear­cut­ting is the com­plete or al­most com­plete re­mov­al of a stand, which gives rise to eco­lo­gic­al con­di­tions sim­il­ar to those on open lands in the cut­ting area or causes ser­i­ous det­ri­ment­al ef­fects to it or to the nearby stands.

² Clear­cut­ting does not arise, if the old stand is cleared fol­low­ing suf­fi­cient and se­cured re­gen­er­a­tion.

(Art. 24 ForA)

¹ The can­tons shall guar­an­tee the sup­ply of ap­pro­pri­ate suit­able forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al.

² The com­pet­ent can­ton­al forest au­thor­ity shall se­lect the forests stands, from which forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al may be ob­tained. It shall no­ti­fy the seed stands to the FOEN.

³ It shall con­trol the com­mer­cial and in­dus­tri­al pro­duc­tion of seeds and plant parts and is­sues cer­ti­fic­ates of ori­gin.

⁴ Only forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al of cer­ti­fied ori­gin may be used for forestry pur­poses.

⁵ The FOEN shall ad­vise the can­tons about:

a.

the pro­duc­tion, sup­ply and use of forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al;

b.

the safe­guard­ing of ge­net­ic di­versity.

⁶ It keeps a re­gister of the seed stands and a re­gister of the ge­net­ic re­serves.

(Art. 24 ForA)

¹ The im­port of forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al re­quires the au­thor­isa­tion of the FOEN.

² The au­thor­isa­tion is gran­ted if:

a.

the forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al is ap­pro­pri­ate for cul­tiv­a­tion and its ori­gin is con­firmed by an of­fi­cial cer­ti­fic­ate; or

b.

the im­port­er de­clares in writ­ing that the re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al will be used ex­clus­ively out­side of the forest.

^2bis The au­thor­isa­tion to im­port ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al is reg­u­lated by the Re­lease Or­din­ance of 10 Septem­ber 2008³⁶; the terms of ref­er­ence of the present Or­din­ance are also ap­plic­able.³⁷

³ The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of the En­vir­on­ment, Trans­port, En­ergy and Com­mu­nic­a­tions³⁸ (DE­TEC³⁹) shall en­act reg­u­la­tions on the is­su­ing of ex­port doc­u­ments for forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al.

(Art. 24 ForA)

¹ Pub­lic and private seed ex­tract­or­ies, tree nurs­er­ies, forest gar­dens and re­tail­ers must keep a re­cord of the ori­gin, pro­cessing, breed­ing and sup­ply of forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al as well an in­vent­ory of such ma­ter­i­al.

² They shall in­form the pur­chasers of forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al of its clas­si­fic­a­tion and ori­gin in their quo­ta­tions, on their goods and in their in­voices.

³ The FOEN shall con­trol their busi­ness man­age­ment. It may re­quire the as­sist­ance of the can­tons for this.

¹ DE­TEC shall is­sue an or­din­ance on the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the pro­vi­sions of this sec­tion.

² It may al­low, for sci­entif­ic pur­poses, the im­port and use of forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al, the suit­ab­il­ity and ori­gin of which are not proven.

The ex­cep­tion­al use of en­vir­on­ment­ally haz­ard­ous sub­stances in the forest is gov­erned by the Or­din­ance on Chem­ic­al Risk Re­duc­tion of 18 May 2005⁴¹.

(Art. 26 ForA)

¹ Forest dam­age is dam­age that poses a con­sid­er­able threat to the func­tion of the forest and that is caused by:

a.

nat­ur­al events such as storms, forest fires or drought;

b.

harm­ful or­gan­isms such as cer­tain vir­uses, bac­teria, lar­vae, in­sects, fungi or plants.

² Par­tic­u­larly harm­ful or­gan­isms shall be mon­itored and con­trolled in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions of the Plant Health Or­din­ance of 30 Oc­to­ber 2018⁴⁴.⁴⁵

(Art. 27 para. 1 ForA)

The can­tons shall take meas­ures to pre­vent and re­medi­ate forest dam­age, in par­tic­u­lar:

tech­nic­al and sil­vi­cul­tur­al meas­ures to pre­vent and com­bat fire;

meas­ures to re­duce the phys­ic­al load ap­plied to the soil;

meas­ures to mon­it­or and com­bat harm­ful or­gan­isms with the aim of erad­ic­at­ing or curb­ing them or re­strict­ing the dam­age they cause.

(Art. 26 para. 3 and 27a para. 2 ForA)

¹ The FOEN shall es­tab­lish the prin­ciples for the pre­ven­tion and re­medi­ation of forest dam­age. It shall co­ordin­ate the cross-can­ton­al meas­ures and where ne­ces­sary shall it­self es­tab­lish such meas­ures.

² The Swiss Fed­er­al In­sti­tute for Forest, Snow and Land­scape Re­search (WSL) has the fol­low­ing tasks:

a.

it or­gan­ises, to­geth­er with the can­ton­al forestry ser­vices, the col­lec­tion of data of rel­ev­ance to forest pro­tec­tion;

b.

it provides in­form­a­tion about the oc­cur­rence of harm­ful or­gan­isms and oth­er factors that may dam­age the forest;

c.

it ad­vises the can­ton­al forestry ser­vices in mat­ters of forest pro­tec­tion.

¹ Where game dam­age arises des­pite the reg­u­la­tion of game pop­u­la­tions, a plan shall be de­veloped for its pre­ven­tion.

² The plan shall in­clude forestry meas­ures, hunt­ing meas­ures, meas­ures to im­prove and pro­tect hab­it­ats against dis­turb­ance, and a per­form­ance re­view.⁴⁸

³ The plan is a com­pon­ent of the forestry plan­ning.

(Art. 29 para. 1 and 2 ForA)

¹ The FOEN shall en­sure, to­geth­er with the uni­versit­ies, the can­tons and oth­er or­gan­isa­tions, in­sti­tu­tions, and pro­fes­sion­al as­so­ci­ations con­cerned, that the know­ledge and skills ac­quired dur­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing are main­tained, and that forestry en­gin­eers are in­tro­duced to new the­or­et­ic­al and prac­tic­al ad­vances.

² The can­tons shall of­fer suf­fi­cient places for prac­tic­al con­tinu­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing and co­ordin­ate this of­fer with each oth­er. Prac­tic­al con­tinu­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing shall in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

fo­cus on forest plan­ning, forest man­age­ment and forest con­ser­va­tion in the con­text of all forest func­tions;

b.

aim to im­prove man­age­ment skills and ad­min­is­trat­ive know­ledge;

c.

be at­tested by a cer­ti­fic­ate de­tail­ing the ac­quired skills and know­ledge.

(Art. 29 para. 4 and 51 para. 2 ForA)

¹ The can­tons shall provide:

a.

the high­er vo­ca­tion­al train­ing of forest war­dens and op­er­ate the pro­fes­sion­al col­leges re­quired for this pur­pose;

b.

to­geth­er with the re­spons­ible or­gan­isa­tions, the work­ing en­vir­on­ment for the con­tinu­ing pro­fes­sion­al edu­ca­tion and train­ing of forestry per­son­nel.

² In ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 19 para­graph 1, 28 para­graph 2 and 29 para­graph 3 of the Vo­ca­tion­al and Pro­fes­sion­al Edu­ca­tion and Train­ing Act of 13 Decem­ber 2002⁵² (VPETA), the en­act­ment or ap­prov­al of reg­u­la­tions in the field of forestry edu­ca­tion and train­ing shall be sub­ject to a hear­ing of the FOEN.

(Art. 21a and 30 ForA)

¹ The can­tons shall work with ag­ri­cul­tur­al and forestry or­gan­isa­tions to or­gan­ise courses to im­prove work­er safety dur­ing wood har­vest­ing for work­ers with no forestry train­ing.

² Fed­er­ally re­cog­nised courses must provide ba­sic skills in work­er safety, in par­tic­u­lar the cor­rect and safe felling of trees, re­mov­al of branches, and the scor­ing and drag­ging of trees and tree trunks. Such courses must run for at least 10 days in total.

(Art. 29 para. 1 ForA)

¹ …⁵⁴

² The FOEN shall op­er­ate a cent­ral co­ordin­a­tion and doc­u­ment­a­tion agency for meas­ures con­cern­ing forestry edu­ca­tion and train­ing.

(Art. 33 and 34 ForA)

¹ The FOEN is re­spons­ible for the col­lec­tion of sur­vey data on the forest.

² In co­oper­a­tion with the WSL, it sur­veys:

a.

by means of the Na­tion­al Forest In­vent­ory, the ba­sic data re­lat­ing to the loc­a­tions, func­tions and con­di­tion of the forest;

b.

the long-term de­vel­op­ment pro­cesses in nat­ur­al forest re­serves.

³ As part of its ba­sic re­mit, the WSL shall con­duct long-term re­search pro­grammes to sur­vey the pres­sure on the forest eco­sys­tem.

4 The FOEN shall in­form the au­thor­it­ies and the gen­er­al pub­lic about these sur­veys.

(Art. 34a ForA)

¹ The mar­ket­ing and use of sus­tain­ably pro­duced tim­ber shall be pro­moted only in pre-com­pet­it­ive cir­cum­stances not re­lat­ing to one par­tic­u­lar com­pany.

² In par­tic­u­lar, in­nov­at­ive re­search and de­vel­op­ment pro­jects that pro­mote sus­tain­able forest man­age­ment by im­prov­ing data, op­por­tun­it­ies for mar­ket­ing and use, re­source ef­fi­ciency or pub­lic re­la­tions may be pro­moted.

³ Res­ults and find­ings re­lat­ing to the sup­por­ted activ­it­ies shall be made avail­able to the FOEN on re­quest.

(Art. 34b ForA)

¹ In the plan­ning, con­struc­tion and op­er­a­tion of fed­er­al build­ings and in­stall­a­tions the use of tim­ber and tim­ber products shall be pro­moted.

² The sus­tain­ab­il­ity of tim­ber and tim­ber products shall be as­sessed in ac­cord­ance with ex­ist­ing guidelines and re­com­mend­a­tions such as those is­sued by the Co­ordin­a­tion Co­ordin­a­tion Group for Con­struc­tion and Prop­erty Ser­vices.

(Art. 35 para. 2 ForA)

Fin­an­cial as­sist­ance and com­pens­at­ory pay­ments are only provided by the Con­fed­er­a­tion if:

a.

the meas­ures com­ply with the forestry plan­ning;

b.

the meas­ures are ne­ces­sary and ap­pro­pri­ate;

c.

the meas­ures sat­is­fy the ap­plic­able tech­nic­al, eco­nom­ic and eco­lo­gic­al re­quire­ments;

d.

the oth­er re­quire­ments of fed­er­al law are ful­filled;

e.

co­ordin­a­tion with the pub­lic in­terests of oth­er sec­tors is en­sured;

f.

fur­ther main­ten­ance is guar­an­teed.

¹ For com­pens­at­ory pay­ments un­der Art­icles 39 para­graph 1 and 2 and 40 para­graph 1 let­ter c, costs are at­trib­ut­able only if they are in fact in­curred and are dir­ectly re­quired for the prop­er ful­fil­ment of the task for which a con­tri­bu­tion is due. They in­clude the costs of plan­ning, ac­quis­i­tion of land and im­ple­ment­a­tion, as well as mark­ing costs.

² Not at­trib­ut­able are in par­tic­u­lar charges and taxes and costs that can be passed on to third parties who are sig­ni­fic­ant be­ne­fi­ciar­ies or ori­gin­at­ors of dam­age.

(Art. 36 ForA)

¹ Com­pens­at­ory pay­ments for the meas­ures and the com­pil­a­tion of ba­sic doc­u­ment­a­tion on nat­ur­al events are nor­mally al­loc­ated on a glob­al basis. The level of the glob­al com­pens­at­ory pay­ments is ne­go­ti­ated between the FOEN and the can­ton con­cerned and is based on:

a.

the haz­ard and dam­age po­ten­tial;

b.

the scope and the qual­ity of the meas­ures and of their plan­ning.

² Com­pens­at­ory pay­ments may be awar­ded on a case by case basis, if the meas­ures:

a.

have a supra­can­ton­al di­men­sion;

b.

con­cern pro­tec­ted areas or ob­jects lis­ted in na­tion­al in­vent­or­ies;

c.

re­quire par­tic­u­larly com­plex or ex­pert as­sess­ment due to the pos­sible al­tern­at­ives or for oth­er reas­ons; or

d.

were un­fore­see­able.

³ The con­tri­bu­tion to the costs of the meas­ures in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2 amounts to 35 to 45 per cent of the cost of the meas­ures and is based on:

a.

the haz­ard and dam­age po­ten­tial;

b.

the de­gree of im­ple­ment­a­tion of a com­pre­hens­ive risk as­sess­ment;

c.

the scope and the qual­ity of the meas­ures and of their plan­ning.

⁴ If a can­ton in­curs con­sid­er­able ex­penses due to ex­cep­tion­al pro­tect­ive meas­ures, in par­tic­u­lar fol­low­ing dam­age caused by bad weath­er, the con­tri­bu­tion un­der para­graph 3 may be in­creased ex­cep­tion­ally to a max­im­um of 65 per cent of the cost of the meas­ures.

⁵ No com­pens­at­ory pay­ments are awar­ded for:

a.⁶³

meas­ures re­quired for the pro­tec­tion of build­ings and in­stall­a­tions which at the time of con­struc­tion:

1.

were in already des­ig­nated haz­ard zones or known haz­ard areas, and

2.

are not ne­ces­sar­ily at­tached to that loc­a­tion;

b.

meas­ures for the pro­tec­tion of tour­ist build­ings and in­stall­a­tions, such as cable­ways, ski lifts, ski runs or hik­ing trails, that are situ­ated out­side of the in­hab­ited area.

(Art. 37 ForA)

¹ The level of the glob­al com­pens­at­ory pay­ments awar­ded for meas­ures re­quired to en­able the pro­tect­ive forest to ful­fil its pro­tect­ive func­tion is based on:

a.

haz­ard and dam­age po­ten­tial;

b.

the num­ber of hec­tares of the pro­tect­ive forest to be main­tained;

c.

the scope and the plan­ning of the in­fra­struc­ture re­quired for the main­ten­ance of the pro­tect­ive forest;

d.

the qual­ity of the ser­vices provided.

² The amount is ne­go­ti­ated between the FOEN and the can­ton con­cerned.

³ The con­tri­bu­tion awar­ded by rul­ing to the costs of pro­jects res­ult­ing from ex­cep­tion­al nat­ur­al events shall not ex­ceed 40 per cent of the costs and shall be in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ters a, c and d.⁶⁴

(Art. 37a ForA)

¹ The amount of glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for meas­ures to pre­vent and mit­ig­ate forest dam­age out­side the pro­tect­ive forest is de­term­ined by:

a.

the de­gree of threat to forest func­tions;

b.

the num­ber of hec­tares over which meas­ures are taken;

c.

the qual­ity of the ser­vices.

² The FOEN and the can­tons con­cerned shall ne­go­ti­ate the amount.

³ Fin­an­cial as­sist­ance may be awar­ded in in­di­vidu­al cases in which the meas­ures were un­fore­see­able and par­tic­u­larly costly. The amount shall not ex­ceed 40 per cent of the costs and is de­term­ined in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1 let­ters a and c.

(Art. 37b ForA)

¹ Com­pens­a­tion may be paid in cases of hard­ship if in­di­vidu­als are par­tic­u­larly badly ef­fected and can­not be ex­pec­ted to meet the cost of the dam­age them­selves.

² Ap­plic­a­tions for com­pens­a­tion are to be sub­mit­ted, with reas­ons giv­en, once the dam­age has been as­cer­tained but no later than one year after the meas­ures have been put in place by the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies.

³ No com­pens­a­tion is paid for loss of yield or im­ma­ter­i­al dam­age.

⁴ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall re­im­burse the can­tons between 35 and 50 per cent of the cost of com­pens­a­tion pay­ments in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sion on glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance in Art­icle 40a.

(Art. 38 para. 1 ForA)⁶⁷

¹ The level of glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for meas­ures that con­trib­ute to the main­ten­ance and im­prove­ment of the bio­lo­gic­al di­versity of the forest is based on:

the num­ber of hec­tares of forest re­serves that are to be des­ig­nated and main­tained;

b.⁶⁸ ...

c.

the num­ber of hec­tares of hab­it­ats to be main­tained, in par­tic­u­lar the forest mar­gins, which provide hab­it­at con­nectiv­ity;

d.

the ex­tent and qual­ity of the meas­ures for the pro­mo­tion of an­im­al and plant spe­cies, the con­ser­va­tion of which is a mat­ter of pri­or­ity for bio­lo­gic­al di­versity;

e.⁶⁹

the num­ber of hec­tares out­side forest re­serves to be des­ig­nated as areas with a high pro­por­tion of old wood and dead­wood or with suf­fi­cient trees demon­strat­ing char­ac­ter­ist­ics that are of par­tic­u­lar value to bio­lo­gic­al di­versity (bi­otope tree);

f.

the num­ber of hec­tares of the forms of forest cul­tiv­a­tion to be main­tained, such as wooded pas­tures, cop­pices with stand­ards and cop­pice forests and chest­nut or wal­nut groves;

g.

the qual­ity of the ser­vices provided.

² The amount is ne­go­ti­ated between the FOEN and the can­ton con­cerned.

³ The fin­an­cial as­sist­ance may only be al­loc­ated, if the pro­tec­tion of the eco­lo­gic­al as lis­ted un­der para­graph 1 let­ters a and c–f is guar­an­teed con­trac­tu­ally or in any oth­er suit­able way.

⁴ ... ⁷⁰

(Art. 38a ForA)

¹ The level of glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for meas­ures im­prove the cost-ef­fect­ive­ness of forest man­age­ment is de­term­ined:

a.⁷³

for can­ton­al plan­ning bases: by the size of the forest area in the can­ton and the size of forest area in­cluded in the plan or an im­pact as­sess­ment;

b.⁷⁴

for the im­prove­ment of man­age­ment con­di­tions in forestry op­er­a­tions: by the scale and qual­ity of the op­tim­isa­tion meas­ures planned and im­ple­men­ted by the can­ton;

c.

for the stor­age of wood in cases of ex­cep­tion­al wood sup­ply: by the volume of wood that the mar­ket is tem­por­ar­ily un­able to ab­sorb;

d.

by the qual­ity of the ser­vices provided;

e.⁷⁵

for pro­mot­ing the train­ing of forest work­ers: by the num­ber of days at­ten­ded on courses run by fed­er­ally cer­ti­fied course pro­viders;

f.⁷⁶

for the prac­tic­al train­ing of forestry spe­cial­ists at uni­versity level: by the num­ber of train­ing days at­ten­ded;

g.⁷⁷

for young forest main­ten­ance: by the num­ber of hec­tares of young forest re­quir­ing main­ten­ance;

h.⁷⁸

for ad­apt­ing forest stands spe­cific­ally to chan­ging cli­mat­ic con­di­tions: by the num­ber of hec­tares over which meas­ures are taken;

i.⁷⁹

for ob­tain­ing forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al: by the in­fra­struc­ture and level of mech­an­isa­tion in seed ex­tract­or­ies and the num­ber of tree spe­cies ne­ces­sary for main­tain­ing ge­net­ic di­versity in the seed har­vest­ing plant­a­tions;

j.⁸⁰

for ad­apt­ing or re­con­sti­t­ut­ing pub­lic in­fra­struc­ture fa­cil­it­ies: by the num­ber of hec­tares of forest served by them.

² The amount is ne­go­ti­ated between the FOEN and the can­ton con­cerned.

³ Glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for the im­prove­ment of the man­age­ment con­di­tions in forestry op­er­a­tions is only awar­ded if:

a.

the co­oper­a­tion between or mer­ging of en­ter­prises is un­der­taken as a long-term meas­ure;

b.

an eco­nom­ic­ally sig­ni­fic­ant volume of wood is har­ves­ted or mar­keted jointly; and

c.

busi­ness ac­counts are kept.

⁴ Glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for young forest main­ten­ance and for ad­apt­ing forest stands spe­cific­ally to chan­ging cli­mat­ic con­di­tions shall only be awar­ded if the meas­ures are in ac­cord­ance with near-nat­ur­al sil­vi­cul­ture meth­ods.⁸¹

⁵ Glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for ob­tain­ing forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al shall only be af­forded if a con­struc­tion pro­ject or op­er­at­ing concept in­clud­ing cost pro­pos­als and proof of fund­ing has been ap­proved by the can­ton.⁸²

(Art. 39 ForA)

¹ ...⁸³

² The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall award fin­an­cial as­sist­ance in com­pens­a­tion for the oc­cu­pa­tion-spe­cif­ic costs arising from the on-site prac­tic­al train­ing of forestry per­son­nel in the form of a flat-rate pay­ment of 10 per cent of the train­ing costs of the schools for forest war­dens and of the courses.

³ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall award fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for the cre­ation of teach­ing ma­ter­i­al for forestry per­son­nel, on a case by case basis and amount­ing to a max­im­um of 50 per cent of the re­cog­nised costs.

⁴ ...⁸⁴

(Art. 31 ForA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion may award fin­an­cial as­sist­ance to re­search and de­vel­op­ment pro­jects that it has not com­mis­sioned it­self, on a case by case basis and amount­ing to a max­im­um of 50 per cent of the pro­ject costs.

² It may award fin­an­cial as­sist­ance to or­gan­isa­tions for the pro­mo­tion and co­ordin­a­tion of re­search and de­vel­op­ment, on a case by case basis and equal to at most the fund­ing provided by third parties, provided it re­ceives an ad­equate right of co-de­cision in these or­gan­isa­tions.

¹ The can­ton shall sub­mit the ap­plic­a­tion for glob­al com­pens­at­ory pay­ments or fin­an­cial as­sist­ance to the FOEN.

² The ap­plic­a­tion shall con­tain de­tails of:

a.

the pro­gramme ob­ject­ives to be achieved;

b.

the meas­ures prob­ably re­quired to achieve the ob­ject­ives and their im­ple­ment­a­tion;

c.

the ef­fect­ive­ness of the meas­ures.

³ In the case of meas­ures that af­fect more than one can­ton, the can­tons shall en­sure the co­ordin­a­tion of the ap­plic­a­tions with the oth­er can­tons con­cerned.

¹ The FOEN shall enter in­to a pro­gramme agree­ment with the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­ity.

² The sub­ject mat­ter of the pro­gramme agree­ment is in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the stra­tegic pro­gramme ob­ject­ives to be jointly achieved;

b.

the ser­vices to be provided by the can­ton;

c.

the con­tri­bu­tion to be paid by the Con­fed­er­a­tion;

d.

con­trolling.

³ The pro­gramme agree­ment shall have a max­im­um term of four years.

⁴ The FOEN shall is­sue guidelines on the pro­ced­ure for pro­gramme agree­ments and on the in­form­a­tion and doc­u­ments re­quired in con­nec­tion with the sub­ject mat­ter of the pro­gramme agree­ment.

Glob­al com­pens­at­ory pay­ments or fin­an­cial as­sist­ance are paid in in­stal­ments.

¹ The can­ton shall provide the FOEN with a re­port each year on the use of the glob­al sub­sidies.

² The FOEN shall con­trol by ran­dom sample:

a.

the im­ple­ment­a­tion of in­di­vidu­al meas­ures in ac­cord­ance with the pro­gramme ob­ject­ives;

b.

the use of the sub­sidies paid.

¹ The FOEN shall with­hold the in­stal­ment pay­ments dur­ing the pro­gramme in full or in part if the can­ton:

a.

fails to com­ply with its re­port­ing ob­lig­a­tion (Art. 49 para. 1);

b.

culp­ably causes ser­i­ous dis­rup­tion to its own ser­vices.

² If it be­comes ap­par­ent after the pro­gramme that the ser­vices provided are sub­stand­ard, the FOEN shall re­quire the can­ton to rec­ti­fy the de­fects; it shall al­low the can­ton an ap­pro­pri­ate peri­od with­in which to do this.

³ If in­stall­a­tions or equip­ment for which fin­an­cial as­sist­ance or com­pens­at­ory pay­ments have been provided are used for a pur­pose oth­er than that in­ten­ded, the FOEN may re­quire the can­ton to ar­range for the non-in­ten­ded use to be stopped or re­versed with­in a reas­on­able peri­od.

⁴ If the de­fects are not rec­ti­fied or the non-in­ten­ded use is not stopped or re­versed, the re­cov­ery of the pay­ments made is gov­erned by Art­icles 28 and 29 of the Sub­sidies Act of 5 Oc­to­ber 1990⁸⁵.

¹ Ap­plic­a­tions for com­pens­at­ory pay­ments or fin­an­cial as­sist­ance in spe­cif­ic cases without the in­volve­ment of a can­ton must be sub­mit­ted to the FOEN; all oth­er ap­plic­a­tions must be sub­mit­ted to the can­ton.

² The can­ton shall ex­am­ine the ap­plic­a­tions that it re­ceives and pass them on to the FOEN with a jus­ti­fied pro­pos­al, the can­ton­al au­thor­isa­tions already avail­able and the can­ton­al de­cision on the sub­sidy.

³ The FOEN shall is­sue guidelines on the in­form­a­tion and doc­u­ments re­quired in con­nec­tion with the ap­plic­a­tion.

¹ The FOEN shall is­sue a rul­ing de­term­in­ing the amount of the com­pens­at­ory pay­ment or the fin­an­cial as­sist­ance or shall enter in­to an agree­ment with the re­cip­i­ent of the sub­sidy.

² Pay­ment of sub­sidies shall be de­pend­ent on the pro­gress made with the meas­ures.

¹ If, des­pite re­ceiv­ing a warn­ing, a re­cip­i­ent, whose ap­plic­a­tion for com­pens­at­ory pay­ments or fin­an­cial as­sist­ance has been ap­proved, fails to carry out the meas­ures or car­ries them in a sub­stand­ard man­ner, the com­pens­at­ory pay­ments or fin­an­cial as­sist­ance shall not be paid out or shall be re­duced.

² If com­pens­at­ory pay­ments or fin­an­cial as­sist­ance have been paid out and if, des­pite re­ceiv­ing a warn­ing, the re­cip­i­ent fails to carry out the meas­ures or car­ries them out in a sub­stand­ard man­ner, the re­cov­ery of the pay­ments made is gov­erned by Art­icle 28 of the Sub­sidies Act of 5 Oc­to­ber 1990⁸⁶.

³ If in­stall­a­tions or equip­ment for which com­pens­at­ory pay­ments or fin­an­cial as­sist­ance have been paid out are not used for the in­ten­ded pur­pose, the FOEN may re­quire the can­ton to ar­range for the non-in­ten­ded use to be stopped or re­versed with­in a reas­on­able peri­od.

⁴ If the non-in­ten­ded use is not stopped or re­versed, the re­cov­ery of the pay­ments made is gov­erned by Art­icles 28 and 29 of the Sub­sidies Act of 5 Oc­to­ber 1990.

Art­icle 49 ap­plies by ana­logy to re­port­ing and con­trolling.

Re­pealed

¹ In­vest­ment cred­its shall be gran­ted if:

a.

the in­vest­ment is ne­ces­sary and suit­able to pro­tect against nat­ur­al events or for the main­ten­ance and use of the forest; and

b.

the in­vest­ment is re­quired due to the ap­plic­ant's fin­an­cial cir­cum­stances.

² The ap­plic­ant must be able to sup­port the total fin­an­cial bur­den.

³ The ap­plic­ant must ex­haust his or her own fin­an­cial re­sources and claim any con­tri­bu­tions avail­able from third parties.

⁴ In­vest­ment cred­its may not be ac­cu­mu­lated with cred­its gran­ted un­der the Fed­er­al Act of 23 March 1962⁸⁷ on Ag­ri­cul­tur­al In­vest­ment Cred­its and Busi­ness Sub­sidies or the Fed­er­al Act of 28 June 1974⁸⁸ on In­vest­ment Sub­sidies for Moun­tain Re­gions.

⁵ The can­tons are not en­titled to cred­its for their own in­vest­ments.

⁶ ...⁸⁹

¹ The FOEN shall grant the can­ton glob­al loans to cov­er the pay­ment of in­vest­ment cred­its. The loans shall be in­terest free and re­pay­able over 20 years.

² The can­ton shall no­ti­fy the FOEN each year of its prob­able bor­row­ing re­quire­ments for the com­ing year.

³ The avail­able funds are al­loc­ated ac­cord­ing to de­mand.⁹⁰

(Art. 40 para. 3 ForA)

¹ Ap­plic­a­tions for in­vest­ment cred­its must be sub­mit­ted to the can­ton.

² The fol­low­ing doc­u­ments must be en­closed with each ap­plic­a­tion:

a.

the gen­er­al op­er­a­tion­al plan;

b.

the op­er­at­ing ac­counts;

c.

a re­port on the ap­plic­ant's fin­an­cial cir­cum­stances.

³ Com­pan­ies that are com­mer­cially con­trac­ted to main­tain or use the forest must in­clude the bal­ance sheets and profit and loss ac­counts for the last two years in their ap­plic­a­tion.

(Art. 40 para. 1 ForA)

¹ In­vest­ment cred­its shall be gran­ted:

a.

as con­struc­tion cred­its to cov­er up to 80 per cent of the con­struc­tion costs;

b.⁹¹

to fund the re­main­ing costs of meas­ures in ac­cord­ance with the Art­icles 39, 40 and 43;

c.

to cov­er up to 80 per cent the pur­chase costs of forestry vehicles, ma­chines and devices;

d.

to cov­er up to 80 per cent the costs of cre­at­ing forestry in­stall­a­tions.

² In­vest­ment cred­its are nor­mally in­terest free. However, if the ap­plic­ant can sup­port the total fin­an­cial bur­den, an ap­pro­pri­ate rate of in­terest shall be charged.

³ No loan shall be gran­ted for less than 10,000 francs.

(Art. 40 ForA)

¹ In­vest­ment cred­its shall be re­pay­able over a peri­od of not ex­ceed­ing 20 years.

² The re­pay­ment in­stal­ments are de­term­ined ac­cord­ing to the nature of the meas­ure and the fin­an­cial cir­cum­stances of the bor­row­er.

³ Re­pay­ment be­gins:

a.

for in­vest­ments un­der Art­icle 63 para­graph 1 let­ters a and b, one year after com­ple­tion of the pro­ject, but no more than five years after pay­ment of the first in­stal­ment of the cred­it;

b.

for oth­er in­vest­ments, in the year fol­low­ing that in which the cred­it is paid.

⁴ The bor­row­er may re­pay all or part of the cred­it without no­tice at any time.

⁵ ...⁹²

⁶ In­terest of 5 per cent shall be charged on ar­rears of cred­its or re­pay­ment in­stal­ments.

(Art. 49 ForA)

¹ DE­TEC is au­thor­ised to in­de­pend­ently carry out op­er­a­tions arising from the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the ForA.

² If the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies ap­ply oth­er fed­er­al acts or agree­ments or de­cisions un­der in­ter­na­tion­al law which re­late to the sub­ject mat­ter of this Or­din­ance, they also im­ple­ment this Or­din­ance. Co­oper­a­tion between the FOEN and the can­tons is gov­erned by Art­icle 49 para­graph 2 ForA; stat­utory du­ties of con­fid­en­ti­al­ity are re­served.⁹³

(Art. 50 ForA)

¹ The can­tons shall is­sue the im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions to the ForA and to this Or­din­ance with­in five years of the Act com­ing in­to force.

² They shall in­form the FOEN of any rul­ings and de­cisions on de­for­est­a­tion.⁹⁴

The FOEN shall de­term­ine the min­im­um geodata mod­els and mod­el­ling for geo­bas­is data in ac­cord­ance with this Or­din­ance for which it is des­ig­nated the com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­ity in An­nex 1 to the Or­din­ance on Geoin­form­a­tion of 21 May 2008⁹⁶.

The fol­low­ing are re­pealed:

a.

the Or­din­ance of 1 Oc­to­ber 1965⁹⁷ on the Fed­er­al Su­per­vi­sion of the Forest Po­lice;

b.

the Or­din­ance of 23 May 1973⁹⁸ on the Ap­point­ment of Seni­or Forestry Of­ficers;

c.

the Or­din­ance of 28 Novem­ber 1988⁹⁹ on Ex­traordin­ary Meas­ures for the Con­ser­va­tion of Forest;

d.

Art­icles 2–5 the Or­din­ance of 16 Oc­to­ber 1956¹⁰⁰ on the Forest Plant Pro­tec­tion;

e.

the Fed­er­al Coun­cil De­cree of 16 Oc­to­ber 1956¹⁰¹ on the Ori­gin and Use of Forest Re­pro­duct­ive Ma­ter­i­al and Forest Plants;

f.

the Or­din­ance of 22 June 1970¹⁰² on In­vest­ment Cred­its for the Forestry Sec­tor in the Moun­tain Re­gion.

...¹⁰³

¹ This Or­din­ance, with the ex­cep­tion of Art­icles 60–64 and 67 let­ter f, comes in­to force on 1 Janu­ary 1993.

² Art­icles 60–64 and 67 let­ter f come in­to force on 1 Janu­ary 1994.