Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

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.⁴¹

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.