Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion provides fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for meas­ures that im­prove the prof­it­ab­il­ity of sus­tain­able forest man­age­ment, in par­tic­u­lar for:⁵¹

a.

inter-op­er­a­tion­al plan­ning bases;

b.

meas­ures to im­prove the man­age­ment con­di­tions of the forestry op­er­a­tions;

c.

tem­por­ary joint meas­ures by the forestry and tim­ber sec­tor for ad­vert­ising and mar­ket­ing pro­mo­tion in the case of ex­cep­tion­al wood sup­ply;

d.

the stor­age of wood in the case of ex­cep­tion­al wood sup­ply;

e.⁵²

pro­mot­ing the train­ing of forestry work­ers and the prac­tic­al train­ing of forestry ex­perts at uni­versity level;

f.⁵³

meas­ures that sup­port the forest in be­ing able to ful­fil its func­tions even un­der changed cli­mat­ic con­di­tions, in par­tic­u­lar for the man­age­ment of young forest and propaga­tion of plant ma­ter­i­al;

g.⁵⁴

ad­apt­a­tion or re­con­sti­t­u­tion of pub­lic in­fra­struc­ture fa­cil­it­ies, in­so­far as these are ne­ces­sary as part of an over­all forest man­age­ment concept and take ac­count of the forest as a close-to-nature hab­it­at, and over­de­vel­op­ment is avoided.

² It provides fin­an­cial as­sist­ance:

a.⁵⁵

for meas­ures un­der para­graph 1 let­ters a, b and d–g: as glob­al sub­sidies on the basis of pro­gramme agree­ments con­cluded with the can­tons;

b.

for meas­ures un­der para­graph 1 let­ter e: by a rul­ing of the Fed­er­al Of­fice.

³ The level of the fin­an­cial as­sist­ance is based on the ef­fect­ive­ness of the meas­ures.