Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion grants to the can­tons on the basis of pro­gramme agree­ments glob­al com­pens­at­ory pay­ments for meas­ures that pro­tect hu­man life and sig­ni­fic­ant ma­ter­i­al as­sets against nat­ur­al events, in par­tic­u­lar for:³⁶

a.³⁷

the erec­tion, main­ten­ance and re­place­ment of pro­tect­ive struc­tures and in­stall­a­tions;

b.

the cre­ation of forest with spe­cial pro­tect­ive func­tion and the cor­res­pond­ing young forest main­ten­ance;

c.

the com­pil­a­tion of haz­ard re­gisters and haz­ard maps, the es­tab­lish­ment and op­er­a­tion of mon­it­or­ing sta­tions and the de­vel­op­ment of early-warn­ing ser­vices to se­cure set­tle­ments and trans­port routes.

² By way of ex­cep­tion, it may provide fin­an­cial as­sist­ance by means of a rul­ing for pro­jects that re­quire an in­di­vidu­al as­sess­ment by the Con­fed­er­a­tion.³⁸

³ The amount of fin­an­cial as­sist­ance provided is de­term­ined by the risk posed by nat­ur­al events and the cost and ef­fect­ive­ness of the meas­ures.³⁹