Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall sub­sid­ise up to 40 per cent of the cost of land im­prove­ments. Such costs in­clude ex­pendit­ure for meas­ures that are re­quired un­der the terms of oth­er fed­er­al le­gis­la­tion and are closely con­nec­ted to the sub­sid­ised work.

² In the case of land im­prove­ments in moun­tain areas, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may raise the amount of the sub­sidy to a max­im­um of 50 per cent if such im­prove­ments:

a.

can­not be fun­ded through oth­er means; or

b.

com­prise com­pre­hens­ive com­mun­al works.

³ In the case of land im­prove­ments to re­pair es­pe­cially ser­i­ous dam­age due to ex­cep­tion­al nat­ur­al oc­cur­rences, the Con­fed­er­a­tion may grant a sup­ple­ment­ary sub­sidy of a max­im­um of 20 per cent if the re­quired work can­not be paid for even with an ap­pro­pri­ate con­tri­bu­tion from the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies, the loc­al au­thor­it­ies and pub­lic law funds.

⁴ The Con­fed­er­a­tion may grant lump-sum sub­sidies for the peri­od­ic re­pair of land im­prove­ment works.¹³⁴