Regeln und Prinzipien zur Überprüfung von Regulierungen in der Waldwirtschaft

Rules and principles for reviewing forest regulations The federal forest legislation aims to ensure that the forest can fulfil protective and welfare functions for the benefit of the general public and commercial functions for the benefit of forest owners in a balanced way. From the perspective of regulatory economics, the question arises as to whether this goal can be achieved with existing regulation and how efficient regulation is in terms of the economic costs incurred. The article first introduces important foundations of economic and political economic regulation theory and discusses certain procedural rules and indicators that would need to be considered in an overall analysis of forest regulations. It then subjects regulation at the federal level to a rough review in line with these theoretical principles. This leads to the hypothesis that this regulation could be effective, but that it generates unnecessarily high economic costs. In order to remedy this regulatory failure, the author believes that the Confederation's forest regulation should be more strongly differentiated according to the type of forest. At the very least, forests with high timber industry potential should be partially deregulated. A comprehensive analysis would have to be carried out to examine the thesis of regulatory failure.