Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ If a single loan or a loan com­bined with the bal­ance of earli­er in­vest­ment loans and fin­an­cial sup­port ex­ceeds a cer­tain sum (lim­it), the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies shall sub­mit their de­cision to the FO­AG for ap­prov­al. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­cides on the lim­it.

^1bis The FO­AG de­cides wheth­er to grant an in­vest­ment loan only when the pro­ject has come in­to ef­fect.¹⁶⁵

² The FO­AG shall in­form the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies with­in 30 days wheth­er it ap­proves the de­cision or not.¹⁶⁶

³ If sup­port is gran­ted in the form of a build­ing loan as per Art­icle 107 para­graph 2, the bal­ance of earli­er loans is not taken in­to ac­count.