Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

¹ Sub­sidies paid in ac­cord­ance with this Act is gran­ted with­in the scope of the au­thor­ised cred­its un­der the con­di­tion that:

a.

the meas­ures are cost ef­fect­ive and car­ried out pro­fes­sion­ally;

b.

the meas­ures are as­sessed in con­junc­tion with those of oth­er Fed­er­al Acts both col­lect­ively and ac­cord­ing to their ac­tions in com­bin­a­tion;

c.

the be­ne­fi­ciary makes a con­tri­bu­tion that is pro­por­tion­ate to its eco­nom­ic per­form­ance, the oth­er sources of fin­ance and reas­on­able self-fin­an­cing meas­ures;

d.

third parties, who are be­ne­fi­ciar­ies or ori­gin­at­ors of dam­age, are called on for co-fin­an­cing;

e.

a per­man­ent res­ol­u­tion of con­flicts that is be­ne­fi­cial to forest con­ser­va­tion is reached.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may re­quire that sub­sidies are only paid to be­ne­fi­ciar­ies who par­ti­cip­ate in self-fin­an­cing meas­ures by the forestry and tim­ber sec­tor.