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Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

English is not an official language of the Swiss Confederation. This translation is provided for information purposes only and has no legal force.

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

Art. 6 Responsibility 5

1 Ex­cep­tion­al per­mits are gran­ted by:

a.
the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies, if they are com­pet­ent to de­cide on the con­struc­tion or al­ter­a­tion of works, for which de­for­est­a­tion is to be car­ried out;
the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies, if they de­cide on the con­struc­tion or al­ter­a­tion of works, for which de­for­est­a­tion is to be car­ried out.

2 Be­fore the can­ton­al au­thor­ity de­cides on a derog­a­tion, it shall hear the Fed­er­al Of­fice for the En­vir­on­ment6 (Fed­er­al Of­fice), if:

a.
the area to be de­for­es­ted ex­ceeds 5000 m2; if sev­er­al de­for­est­a­tion ap­plic­a­tions are made for one and the same pro­ject, the total area is de­cis­ive;
b.
the forest to be de­for­es­ted is loc­ated in sev­er­al can­tons.

5 Amended by No I 17 of the Fed­er­al Act of 18 June 1999 on the Co­ordin­a­tion and Sim­pli­fic­a­tion of De­cision-Mak­ing Pro­ced­ures, in force since 1 Jan. 2000 (AS 1999 3071; BBl 1998 2591).

6 The des­ig­na­tion of the ad­min­is­trat­ive en­tity was amended ac­cord­ing to Art. 16 para. 3 of the Pub­lic­a­tions Or­din­ance of 17 Nov. 2004 (AS 20044937).