Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

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of 4 October 1991 (Status as of 1 January 2022)


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Art. 37 Protective forest 37

1 The Con­fed­er­a­tion grants to the can­tons on the basis of pro­gramme agree­ments glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for meas­ures ne­ces­sary for the ful­fil­ment of func­tion of the pro­tect­ive forest, in par­tic­u­lar for:

a.
the main­ten­ance of the pro­tect­ive forest, in­clud­ing the pre­ven­tion and re­medi­ation of forest dam­age that en­danger the pro­tect­ive forest;
b.
the guar­an­tee­ing of the in­fra­struc­ture for the main­ten­ance of the pro­tect­ive forest in­so­far as it takes the forest as a nat­ur­al com­munity in­to ac­count.

1bis By way of ex­cep­tion, it may provide fin­an­cial as­sist­ance by means of a rul­ing for pro­jects that ori­gin­ate as the res­ult of an ex­traordin­ary nat­ur­al event.38

2 The amount of fin­an­cial as­sist­ance is de­term­ined by the pro­tect­ive forest area to be main­tained, the risk to be hindered and the im­pact of the meas­ures.

37 Amended by No II 30 of the Fed­er­al Act of 6 Oct. 2006 on the New Sys­tem of Fin­an­cial Equal­isa­tion and Di­vi­sion of Tasks between the Con­fed­er­a­tion and the Can­tons (NFE), in force since 1 Jan. 2008 (AS 2007 5779; BBl 2005 6029).

38 In­ser­ted by No I of the FA of 18 March 2016, in force since 1 Jan. 2017 (AS 2016 3207; BBl 2014 4909).

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