Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

¹ Any per­son who can demon­strate a le­git­im­ate in­terest may have the can­ton de­clare wheth­er a plot of land is a forest.

² When en­act­ing and re­vis­ing land-use plans in ac­cord­ance with the Fed­er­al Act of 22 June 1979¹⁴ on Spa­tial Plan­ning de­clar­a­tion as forest must be ordered in loc­a­tions:

a.

in which de­vel­op­ment zones bor­der the forest or will bor­der it in the fu­ture;

b.

out­side de­vel­op­ment zones where the can­ton wants to pre­vent an in­crease in forest.¹⁵

³ If a re­quest for de­clar­a­tion as forest is made in as­so­ci­ation with an ap­plic­a­tion for de­for­est­a­tion, re­spons­ib­il­ity is gov­erned by Art­icle 6. The com­pet­ent fed­er­al au­thor­ity de­cides at the re­quest of the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­ity.¹⁶