Ordinance
on Forest
(Forest Ordinance, ForO)

(Art. 36 ForA)

¹ Com­pens­at­ory pay­ments for the meas­ures and the com­pil­a­tion of ba­sic doc­u­ment­a­tion on nat­ur­al events are nor­mally al­loc­ated on a glob­al basis. The level of the glob­al com­pens­at­ory pay­ments is ne­go­ti­ated between the FOEN and the can­ton con­cerned and is based on:

a.

the haz­ard and dam­age po­ten­tial;

b.

the scope and the qual­ity of the meas­ures and of their plan­ning.

² Com­pens­at­ory pay­ments may be awar­ded on a case by case basis, if the meas­ures:

a.

have a supra­can­ton­al di­men­sion;

b.

con­cern pro­tec­ted areas or ob­jects lis­ted in na­tion­al in­vent­or­ies;

c.

re­quire par­tic­u­larly com­plex or ex­pert as­sess­ment due to the pos­sible al­tern­at­ives or for oth­er reas­ons; or

d.

were un­fore­see­able.

³ The con­tri­bu­tion to the costs of the meas­ures in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 2 amounts to 35 to 45 per cent of the cost of the meas­ures and is based on:

a.

the haz­ard and dam­age po­ten­tial;

b.

the de­gree of im­ple­ment­a­tion of a com­pre­hens­ive risk as­sess­ment;

c.

the scope and the qual­ity of the meas­ures and of their plan­ning.

⁴ If a can­ton in­curs con­sid­er­able ex­penses due to ex­cep­tion­al pro­tect­ive meas­ures, in par­tic­u­lar fol­low­ing dam­age caused by bad weath­er, the con­tri­bu­tion un­der para­graph 3 may be in­creased ex­cep­tion­ally to a max­im­um of 65 per cent of the cost of the meas­ures.

⁵ No com­pens­at­ory pay­ments are awar­ded for:

a.⁶³

meas­ures re­quired for the pro­tec­tion of build­ings and in­stall­a­tions which at the time of con­struc­tion:

1.

were in already des­ig­nated haz­ard zones or known haz­ard areas, and

2.

are not ne­ces­sar­ily at­tached to that loc­a­tion;

b.

meas­ures for the pro­tec­tion of tour­ist build­ings and in­stall­a­tions, such as cable­ways, ski lifts, ski runs or hik­ing trails, that are situ­ated out­side of the in­hab­ited area.