Ordinance
on Forest
(Forest Ordinance, ForO)

(Art. 37b ForA)

¹ Com­pens­a­tion may be paid in cases of hard­ship if in­di­vidu­als are par­tic­u­larly badly ef­fected and can­not be ex­pec­ted to meet the cost of the dam­age them­selves.

² Ap­plic­a­tions for com­pens­a­tion are to be sub­mit­ted, with reas­ons giv­en, once the dam­age has been as­cer­tained but no later than one year after the meas­ures have been put in place by the com­pet­ent can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies.

³ No com­pens­a­tion is paid for loss of yield or im­ma­ter­i­al dam­age.

⁴ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall re­im­burse the can­tons between 35 and 50 per cent of the cost of com­pens­a­tion pay­ments in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sion on glob­al fin­an­cial as­sist­ance in Art­icle 40a.