Ordinance
on Forest
(Forest Ordinance, ForO)

(Art. 2 para. 2 let. b and 11 para. 1 ForA)

¹ Forest struc­tures and in­stall­a­tions, such as forest main­ten­ance de­pots, log stores, covered wood fuel stores and forest roads may be con­struc­ted or altered with of­fi­cial per­mis­sion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 22 SPA²⁷.²⁸

² A re­quire­ment for per­mis­sion is that:

a.

the struc­tures and in­stall­a­tions fa­cil­it­ate re­gion­al forest man­age­ment;

b.

a need is proven for the struc­tures and in­stall­a­tions, their loc­a­tion is suit­able and their size is ad­ap­ted to re­gion­al con­di­tions; and

c.

there is no over­rid­ing pub­lic in­terest in re­fus­ing per­mis­sion.

³ Oth­er re­quire­ments un­der fed­er­al or can­ton­al law also ap­ply.