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Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

of 4 October 1991 (Status as of 1 January 2017)

Art. 1 Aim

1 This Act is in­ten­ded to:

a.
con­serve the forest in its area and spa­tial dis­tri­bu­tion;
b.
pro­tect the forest as a near-nat­ur­al com­munity;
c.
en­sure that the forest can ful­fil its func­tions, in par­tic­u­lar its pro­tect­ive, so­cial and eco­nom­ic func­tions (forest func­tions);
d.
pro­mote and main­tain the forestry sec­tor.

2 It is fur­ther­more in­ten­ded to con­trib­ute to the pro­tec­tion of hu­man life and im­port­ant ma­ter­i­al as­sets against ava­lanches, land­slides, erosion and rock­fall (nat­ur­al events).