Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion su­per­vises the en­force­ment of this Act and im­ple­ments the du­ties dir­ectly as­signed to it by this Act.

^1bis It co­ordin­ates its en­force­ment meas­ures with those of the can­tons.⁷⁷

² Be­fore a fed­er­al au­thor­ity is­sues a rul­ing on the basis of the Forest Act based on an­oth­er Fed­er­al Act or an in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ment, it shall con­sult the can­tons con­cerned. The Fed­er­al Of­fice and the oth­er fed­er­al agen­cies con­cerned co­oper­ate in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 62a and 62b of the Gov­ern­ment and Ad­min­is­tra­tion Or­gan­isa­tion Act of 21 March 1997⁷⁸ in re­la­tion to en­force­ment.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil en­acts the im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions. It may del­eg­ate the is­su­ing of pro­vi­sions of a primar­ily tech­nic­al or ad­min­is­trat­ive nature to the Fed­er­al De­part­ment of the En­vir­on­ment, Trans­port, En­ergy and Com­mu­nic­a­tion or its agen­cies and to sub­or­din­ated fed­er­al of­fices.⁷⁹