Ordinance
on Forest
(Forest Ordinance, ForO)

(Art. 29 para. 1 and 2 ForA)

¹ The FOEN shall en­sure, to­geth­er with the uni­versit­ies, the can­tons and oth­er or­gan­isa­tions, in­sti­tu­tions, and pro­fes­sion­al as­so­ci­ations con­cerned, that the know­ledge and skills ac­quired dur­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing are main­tained, and that forestry en­gin­eers are in­tro­duced to new the­or­et­ic­al and prac­tic­al ad­vances.

² The can­tons shall of­fer suf­fi­cient places for prac­tic­al con­tinu­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing and co­ordin­ate this of­fer with each oth­er. Prac­tic­al con­tinu­ing edu­ca­tion and train­ing shall in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

fo­cus on forest plan­ning, forest man­age­ment and forest con­ser­va­tion in the con­text of all forest func­tions;

b.

aim to im­prove man­age­ment skills and ad­min­is­trat­ive know­ledge;

c.

be at­tested by a cer­ti­fic­ate de­tail­ing the ac­quired skills and know­ledge.