Ordinance
on Forest
(Forest Ordinance, ForO)

(Art. 38a ForA)

¹ The level of glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for meas­ures im­prove the cost-ef­fect­ive­ness of forest man­age­ment is de­term­ined:

a.⁷³

for can­ton­al plan­ning bases: by the size of the forest area in the can­ton and the size of forest area in­cluded in the plan or an im­pact as­sess­ment;

b.⁷⁴

for the im­prove­ment of man­age­ment con­di­tions in forestry op­er­a­tions: by the scale and qual­ity of the op­tim­isa­tion meas­ures planned and im­ple­men­ted by the can­ton;

c.

for the stor­age of wood in cases of ex­cep­tion­al wood sup­ply: by the volume of wood that the mar­ket is tem­por­ar­ily un­able to ab­sorb;

d.

by the qual­ity of the ser­vices provided;

e.⁷⁵

for pro­mot­ing the train­ing of forest work­ers: by the num­ber of days at­ten­ded on courses run by fed­er­ally cer­ti­fied course pro­viders;

f.⁷⁶

for the prac­tic­al train­ing of forestry spe­cial­ists at uni­versity level: by the num­ber of train­ing days at­ten­ded;

g.⁷⁷

for young forest main­ten­ance: by the num­ber of hec­tares of young forest re­quir­ing main­ten­ance;

h.⁷⁸

for ad­apt­ing forest stands spe­cific­ally to chan­ging cli­mat­ic con­di­tions: by the num­ber of hec­tares over which meas­ures are taken;

i.⁷⁹

for ob­tain­ing forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al: by the in­fra­struc­ture and level of mech­an­isa­tion in seed ex­tract­or­ies and the num­ber of tree spe­cies ne­ces­sary for main­tain­ing ge­net­ic di­versity in the seed har­vest­ing plant­a­tions;

j.⁸⁰

for ad­apt­ing or re­con­sti­t­ut­ing pub­lic in­fra­struc­ture fa­cil­it­ies: by the num­ber of hec­tares of forest served by them.

² The amount is ne­go­ti­ated between the FOEN and the can­ton con­cerned.

³ Glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for the im­prove­ment of the man­age­ment con­di­tions in forestry op­er­a­tions is only awar­ded if:

a.

the co­oper­a­tion between or mer­ging of en­ter­prises is un­der­taken as a long-term meas­ure;

b.

an eco­nom­ic­ally sig­ni­fic­ant volume of wood is har­ves­ted or mar­keted jointly; and

c.

busi­ness ac­counts are kept.

⁴ Glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for young forest main­ten­ance and for ad­apt­ing forest stands spe­cific­ally to chan­ging cli­mat­ic con­di­tions shall only be awar­ded if the meas­ures are in ac­cord­ance with near-nat­ur­al sil­vi­cul­ture meth­ods.⁸¹

⁵ Glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for ob­tain­ing forest re­pro­duct­ive ma­ter­i­al shall only be af­forded if a con­struc­tion pro­ject or op­er­at­ing concept in­clud­ing cost pro­pos­als and proof of fund­ing has been ap­proved by the can­ton.⁸²