Ordinance
on Forest
(Forest Ordinance, ForO)

(Art. 20 para. 2 ForA)

¹ The can­tons shall is­sue reg­u­la­tions for the plan­ning of forest man­age­ment. These shall define, in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the types of plans and their con­tent;

b.

the in­stances re­spons­ible for plan­ning;

c.

the plan­ning goals;

d.

how the plan­ning data are ac­quired and used;

e.

the plan­ning and con­trol pro­ced­ures;

f.

the reg­u­lar re­view­ing of the plans.

² The forestry plan­ning doc­u­ments must de­scribe, at least, the loc­a­tion con­di­tions as well as the forest func­tions and their im­port­ance.

³ In the case of in­ter­op­er­a­tion­al plan­ning, the can­tons shall en­sure that the pop­u­la­tion:

a.

is in­formed of the goals and pro­gress of the plan­ning;

b.

may be in­volved in a suit­able man­ner;

c.

may in­spect it.

⁴ They shall take ac­count of the spa­tial im­pact of forestry plan­ning in their struc­tur­al plan­ning.³⁴