Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

In or­der to pre­vent the im­port and spread of par­tic­u­larly dan­ger­ous harm­ful or­gan­isms, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

or­der the phytosan­it­ary situ­ation to be mon­itored;

b.

stip­u­late that plant ma­ter­i­al and ob­jects and land that are sus­pec­ted of be­ing in­fec­ted be isol­ated as long as an in­fec­tion can­not be ruled out;

c.

or­der the treat­ment, dis­in­fec­tion or de­struc­tion of crops, plant ma­ter­i­al, aids to pro­duc­tion and ob­jects which are or could be af­fected by par­tic­u­larly dan­ger­ous harm­ful or­gan­isms.