Art. 30

(Art. 26 para. 3 and 27a para. 2 ForA)

1. The FOEN shall establish the principles for the prevention and remediation of forest damage. It shall coordinate the cross-cantonal measures and where necessary shall itself establish such measures.
2. The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) has the following tasks:
   1. it organises, together with the cantonal forestry services, the collection of data of relevance to forest protection;
   2. it provides information about the occurrence of harmful organisms and other factors that may damage the forest;
   3. it advises the cantonal forestry services in matters of forest protection.