Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Ad­vis­ory ser­vices are in­ten­ded for people em­ployed in ag­ri­cul­ture, house­hold man­age­ment in ag­ri­cul­ture, ag­ri­cul­tur­al or­gan­isa­tions or in the de­vel­op­ment of rur­al areas, as well as in en­sur­ing and pro­mot­ing the qual­ity of ag­ri­cul­tur­al products. Such people are sup­por­ted in their pro­fes­sion­al work and in re­la­tion to their fur­ther pro­fes­sion­al train­ing.

² The can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies provide ad­vis­ory ser­vices at a can­ton­al level.

³ The Con­fed­er­a­tion provides fin­an­cial as­sist­ance with­in the lim­its of the ap­proved cred­its for ad­vis­ory ser­vices to supra-re­gion­al or na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions or in­sti­tu­tions that are act­ive in spe­cial areas, as well as to na­tion­al ad­vis­ory of­fices.

^3bis The Con­fed­er­a­tion may sup­port pre­lim­in­ary in­vest­ig­a­tions for com­mun­al pro­ject ini­ti­at­ives.¹⁸⁰

⁴ Sup­port is provided for ad­vis­ory activ­it­ies aimed at pro­mot­ing the ex­change of know­ledge, in­form­a­tion and ex­per­i­ence between re­search­ers and those work­ing in the field, between ag­ri­cul­tur­al busi­nesses and those men­tioned in para­graph 1. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall draw up de­tails con­cern­ing areas of activ­ity and types of ser­vices.

⁵ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall reg­u­late the re­quire­ments for the or­gan­isa­tions, in­sti­tu­tions and ad­vis­ory of­fices and the ad­visors em­ployed by them.