Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Meas­ures con­cern­ing in­di­vidu­al farms are sub­sid­ised if the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments are met:

a.¹²²

the farm must provide an ex­ist­ence in the longer term, if ne­ces­sary with a second in­come from out­side the ag­ri­cul­tur­al sec­tor, and re­quire an ap­pro­pri­ate and at least a nor­mal amount of la­bour;

b.

the farm must be run on an ef­fi­cient ra­tion­al basis;

c.¹²³

the farm must be able to provide proof of eco­lo­gic­al per­form­ance un­der the terms of Art­icle 70a para­graph 2 after the in­vest­ment;

d.¹²⁴

the fund­ing and ac­cept­ab­il­ity of the planned in­vest­ment in view of fu­ture eco­nom­ic con­di­tions must be guar­an­teed;

e.

the ap­plic­ant must con­trib­ute his or her own funds and loans as far as pos­sible;

f.

the ap­plic­ant must have a suit­able train­ing.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may set the la­bour lim­it lower than that stated in para­graph 1, let­ter a:

a.

in or­der to en­sure the farm is op­er­at­ive or to guar­an­tee an ad­equate pop­u­la­tion dens­ity;

b.

in the case of meas­ures aimed at di­ver­si­fy­ing activ­it­ies with­in the ag­ri­cul­tur­al or closely as­so­ci­ated sec­tors.¹²⁵