Ordinance
on Forest
(Forest Ordinance, ForO)

¹ The FOEN shall with­hold the in­stal­ment pay­ments dur­ing the pro­gramme in full or in part if the can­ton:

a.

fails to com­ply with its re­port­ing ob­lig­a­tion (Art. 49 para. 1);

b.

culp­ably causes ser­i­ous dis­rup­tion to its own ser­vices.

² If it be­comes ap­par­ent after the pro­gramme that the ser­vices provided are sub­stand­ard, the FOEN shall re­quire the can­ton to rec­ti­fy the de­fects; it shall al­low the can­ton an ap­pro­pri­ate peri­od with­in which to do this.

³ If in­stall­a­tions or equip­ment for which fin­an­cial as­sist­ance or com­pens­at­ory pay­ments have been provided are used for a pur­pose oth­er than that in­ten­ded, the FOEN may re­quire the can­ton to ar­range for the non-in­ten­ded use to be stopped or re­versed with­in a reas­on­able peri­od.

⁴ If the de­fects are not rec­ti­fied or the non-in­ten­ded use is not stopped or re­versed, the re­cov­ery of the pay­ments made is gov­erned by Art­icles 28 and 29 of the Sub­sidies Act of 5 Oc­to­ber 1990⁸⁵.