Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies are re­spons­ible for pro­sec­u­tions.

² Any per­son who breaches the reg­u­la­tions on im­port­ing, ex­port­ing or trans­it­ing goods shall be pro­sec­uted and be li­able to the pen­al­ties un­der the le­gis­la­tion on cus­toms tar­iffs. The au­thor­it­ies may not pro­ceed with a pro­sec­u­tion in par­tic­u­larly minor cases of vi­ol­a­tion con­cern­ing the use of im­port quotas for ag­ri­cul­tur­al products.²⁵²

³ If an act sim­ul­tan­eously con­sti­tutes an of­fence un­der para­graph 2 and an of­fence pro­sec­uted by the Fed­er­al Of­fice for Cus­toms and Bor­der Se­cur­ity, the pen­alty for the more ser­i­ous of­fence ap­plies; the pen­alty may be raised ac­cord­ingly.²⁵³