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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. 10 Declaration as forest

1 Any per­son who can demon­strate a le­git­im­ate in­terest may have the can­ton de­clare wheth­er a plot of land is a forest.

2 When en­act­ing and re­vis­ing land-use plans in ac­cord­ance with the Fed­er­al Act of 22 June 197911 on Spa­tial Plan­ning de­clar­a­tion as forest must be ordered in loc­a­tions:

a.
in which de­vel­op­ment zones bor­der the forest or will bor­der it in the fu­ture;
b.
out­side de­vel­op­ment zones where the can­ton wants to pre­vent an in­crease in forest.12

3 If a re­quest for de­clar­a­tion as forest is made in as­so­ci­ation with an ap­plic­a­tion for de­for­est­a­tion, re­spons­ib­il­ity is gov­erned by Art­icle 6. The com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­ity de­cides at the re­quest of the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­ity.13

11SR 700

12 Amended by No I of the Fed­er­al Act of 16 March 2012, in force since 1 Ju­ly 2013 (AS 2013 1981; BBl 2011 43974425).

13 Second sen­tence in­ser­ted by No I of the Fed­er­al Act of 18 March 2016, in force since 1 Jan. 2017 (AS 2016 3207; BBl 2014 4909).