Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

¹ The new law ap­plies to pro­ceed­ings pending on the com­mence­ment of this Act. The com­pet­ent au­thor­ity ac­cord­ing to the old law shall com­plete the pending pro­ceed­ings.

² Un­lim­ited de­for­est­a­tion au­thor­isa­tions lapse two years after the com­mence­ment of this Act. In in­di­vidu­al cases, the com­pet­ent au­thor­ity may pro­long the dead­line on ap­plic­a­tion if the con­di­tions for de­for­est­a­tion are ful­filled. The ap­plic­a­tion must be made be­fore the ex­piry date. The ad­apt­a­tion of rul­ings to the new law is re­served.

³ Con­tract­ors har­vest­ing wood in the forest are ex­empt up to five years after the com­mence­ment of this Act from the duty im­posed by Art­icle 21a, whereby they must demon­strate that the work­ers em­ployed have com­pleted a fed­er­ally re­cog­nised course rais­ing aware­ness of the dangers of forestry work.⁸⁷