Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ In the in­terests of cred­ib­il­ity and to pro­mote qual­ity and sales, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may is­sue reg­u­la­tions con­cern­ing the la­belling of ag­ri­cul­tur­al products and pro­cessed products which:

a.

are man­u­fac­tured us­ing cer­tain meth­ods;

b.

have oth­er spe­cif­ic char­ac­ter­ist­ics;

c.

come from moun­tain areas;

d.

can be dis­tin­guished by their ori­gin;

e.³⁰

are man­u­fac­tured without the use of cer­tain pro­ced­ures or do not dis­play spe­cif­ic char­ac­ter­ist­ics;

f.³¹

are man­u­fac­tured ac­cord­ing to spe­cial cri­ter­ia for sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment.

² La­belling such products ac­cord­ing to these reg­u­la­tions is vol­un­tary.

³ The pro­vi­sions of le­gis­la­tion on gene tech­no­logy and food­stuffs are re­served.³²

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may de­vise of­fi­cial sym­bols for la­belling un­der the terms of this Art­icle and Art­icle 63 para­graph 1 let­ters a and b and may make their use man­dat­ory.³³

⁵ It is man­dat­ory to use these sym­bols in sales pro­mo­tion cam­paigns in­volving meas­ures men­tioned in Art­icle 12.³⁴