Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall op­er­ate a cent­ral in­form­a­tion sys­tem to re­cord the use of plant pro­tec­tion sub­stances by pro­fes­sion­al and com­mer­cial users and by pub­lic bod­ies.

² Any per­son who uses plant pro­tec­tion sub­stances pro­fes­sion­ally or com­mer­cially must re­cord their use in the in­form­a­tion sys­tem.

³ With­in the scope of their stat­utory du­ties, the fol­low­ing au­thor­it­ies and per­sons may ac­cess the data in the in­form­a­tion sys­tem on­line:

a.

the fed­er­al au­thor­it­ies con­cerned: to sup­port im­ple­ment­a­tion in their par­tic­u­lar area of re­spons­ib­il­ity;

b.

the can­ton­al ex­ec­ut­ive au­thor­it­ies and the agen­cies that they in­struct to carry out checks: to ful­fil their du­ties in their par­tic­u­lar area of re­spons­ib­il­ity;

c.

the users, for data that re­late to them;

d.

third parties au­thor­ised to do so by users.