Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall en­act reg­u­la­tions on meas­ures for the pre­ven­tion and re­medi­ation of dam­age that arises as a res­ult of nat­ur­al dis­aster or harm­ful or­gan­isms and that could pose a threat to the func­tion of the forest;

² In or­der to pro­tect against harm­ful or­gan­isms, it may ban or lim­it cer­tain or­gan­isms, plants or products, or in­tro­duce re­quire­ments to au­thor­ise, re­port, re­gister or doc­u­ment them.

³ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall es­tab­lish meas­ures at the na­tion­al bor­ders and en­sure that the can­tons set and co­ordin­ate trans-can­ton­al meas­ures with­in the coun­try’s bor­ders.

⁴ It main­tains a fed­er­al plant pro­tec­tion ser­vice whose forest sec­tion is sub­or­din­ate to the fed­er­al of­fice.