Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion may grant in­terest-free or low-in­terest re­pay­able cred­its:

a.

as build­ing loans;

b.⁶⁰

for the fin­an­cing of the re­sid­ual costs of meas­ures eli­gible for sub­sidy un­der Art­icles 36, 37 and 38a para­graph 1 let­ter b;

c.

for the ac­quis­i­tion of forestry vehicles, ma­chines and equip­ment and for the cre­ation of forestry in­stall­a­tions.

² The loans are lim­ited in term.

³ Loans are only gran­ted on the ap­plic­a­tion of the can­ton. If a debt­or does not meet his re­pay­ment ob­lig­a­tion, the rel­ev­ant can­ton shall as­sume re­spons­ib­il­ity for the re­pay­ment in his place.

⁴ Re­pay­ments shall be used to fund new in­vest­ment cred­its.