Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall stip­u­late:

a.

the re­quire­ments that must be met by the products and pro­duc­tion meth­ods, in par­tic­u­lar those that claim to be eco­lo­gic­al;

b.

mon­it­or­ing pro­ced­ures.

² Products may only be la­belled as or­gan­ic if the en­tire farm where they are pro­duced is run or­gan­ic­ally. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may in par­tic­u­lar al­low ex­cep­tions for farms with per­man­ent crops in­so­far as the in­teg­rity of the or­gan­ic pro­duc­tion and its abil­ity to be checked is not com­prom­ised.³⁵

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may re­cog­nise the guidelines is­sued by or­gan­isa­tions if they in­clude the re­quire­ments men­tioned un­der para­graph 1 let­ter a.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may re­cog­nise la­belling for for­eign products if it is based on equi­val­ent re­quire­ments.