Art. 43

(Art. 38a ForA)

1. The level of global financial assistance for measures to improve the cost-effectiveness of forest management is determined as follows:
   1. ¹ 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;
   2. ² for the improvement of management conditions in forestry operations: by the scale and quality of the optimisation measures planned and implemented by the canton;
   3. for the storage of wood in cases of exceptional wood supply: by the volume of wood that the market is temporarily unable to absorb;
   4. by the quality of the services provided;
   5. ³ for promoting the training of forest workers: by the number of days attended on courses run by federally certified course providers;
   6. ⁴ for the practical training of forestry specialists at university level: by the number of training days attended;
   7. ⁵ for young forest maintenance: by the number of hectares of young forest requiring maintenance;
   8. ⁶ for adapting forest stands specifically to changing climatic conditions: by the number of hectares over which measures are taken;
   9. ⁷ 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;
   10. ⁸ 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:
   1. the cooperation between or merging of enterprises is undertaken as a long-term measure;
   2. an economically significant volume of wood is harvested or marketed jointly; and
   3. 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 close-to-nature silviculture methods.⁹
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.¹⁰