Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall sup­port joint meas­ures ad­op­ted by pro­du­cers, pro­cessors or traders that are aimed at im­prov­ing or en­sur­ing the qual­ity and sus­tain­ab­il­ity of ag­ri­cul­tur­al products and goods pro­cessed from them, as well as of pro­cessing meth­ods.

² Such meas­ures must:

a.

pro­mote in­nov­a­tion or co­oper­a­tion throughout the product chain;

b.

fore­see the par­ti­cip­a­tion of pro­du­cers and be first and fore­most of be­ne­fit to them.

³ Sup­port may be provided in par­tic­u­lar for:

a.

pre­lim­in­ary stud­ies;

b.

the ini­tial im­ple­ment­a­tion of the meas­ures;

c.

the in­clu­sion of pro­du­cers in pro­jects aimed at im­prov­ing qual­ity and sus­tain­ab­il­ity.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall draw up re­quire­ments for such sup­port.