Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ If the value of ob­jects is re­duced or the ob­jects are totally des­troyed as a res­ult of of­fi­cial com­bat meas­ures or through dis­in­fec­tion or sim­il­ar pro­ced­ures, the own­er may re­ceive fair com­pens­a­tion.

² The defin­it­ive amount of the com­pens­a­tion shall be set through the simplest pro­ced­ure pos­sible, the claimant not be­ing li­able for any costs:

a.

by the FO­AG in the case of meas­ures ordered by the FO­AG along the Swiss bor­der or with­in the coun­try;

b.

by the rel­ev­ant can­ton­al ad­min­is­tra­tion in the case of oth­er meas­ures with­in the coun­try.²⁰⁰

³ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall re­pay the can­tons at least one third of the ex­penses in­curred through such com­pens­a­tion.