Ordinance
on Forest
(Forest Ordinance, ForO)

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of 30 November 1992 (Status as of 1 July 2021)


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Art. 22 Import and export

(Art. 24 ForA)

1 The im­port of forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al re­quires the au­thor­isa­tion of the FOEN.

2 The au­thor­isa­tion is gran­ted if:

a.
the forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al is ap­pro­pri­ate for cul­tiv­a­tion and its ori­gin is con­firmed by an of­fi­cial cer­ti­fic­ate; or
b.
the im­port­er de­clares in writ­ing that the re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al will be used ex­clus­ively out­side of the forest.

2bis The au­thor­isa­tion to im­port ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al is reg­u­lated by the Re­lease Or­din­ance of 10 Septem­ber 200836; the terms of ref­er­ence of the present Or­din­ance are also ap­plic­able.37

3 The Fed­er­al De­part­ment of the En­vir­on­ment, Trans­port, En­ergy and Com­mu­nic­a­tions38 (DE­TEC39) shall en­act reg­u­la­tions on the is­su­ing of ex­port doc­u­ments for forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al.

36 SR 814.911

37 In­ser­ted by Art. 51 No 3 of the Plant Pro­tec­tion Or­din­ance of 28 Feb. 2001 (AS 2001 1191). Amended by An­nex 5 No 16 of the Re­lease Or­din­ance of 10 Sept. 2008, in force since 1 Oct. 2008 (AS 2008 4377).

38 The des­ig­na­tion of the ad­min­is­trat­ive en­tity was amended ac­cord­ing to Art. 16 para. 3 of the Pub­lic­a­tions Or­din­ance of 17 Nov. 2004 (AS 2004 4937).

39 Name in ac­cord­ance with No I 5 of the O of 28 Jan. 2015 on the Amend­ment of Or­din­ance Law on the En­vir­on­ment, in par­tic­u­lar with re­gard to the pro­gramme agree­ments for the Pro­gramme Peri­od 2016–2019, in force since 1 Jan. 2016 (AS 2015 427). This change has been made throughout the text.

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