Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may con­clude in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments in the field of ag­ri­cul­ture in­de­pend­ently, with the ex­cep­tion of agree­ments on trade in ag­ri­cul­tur­al products.

² After con­sult­ing the oth­er in­ter­ested fed­er­al of­fices and au­thor­it­ies, the FO­AG may con­clude agree­ments of a tech­nic­al nature with for­eign ag­ri­cul­tur­al au­thor­it­ies, pub­lic re­search in­sti­tu­tions or in­ter­na­tion­al or­gan­isa­tions re­gard­ing in par­tic­u­lar:

a.

the re­cog­ni­tion of agen­cies re­spons­ible for test­ing, as­sess­ing con­form­ity, ap­prov­ing, re­gis­ter­ing and li­cens­ing in the ag­ri­cul­tur­al sec­tor;

b.

the re­cog­ni­tion of test re­ports, con­form­ity as­sess­ments and li­cens­ing con­cern­ing plant pro­tec­tion and aids to pro­duc­tion as well as meth­ods of pro­duc­tion;

c.

tech­nic­al col­lab­or­a­tion and the ex­change of in­form­a­tion with re­gard to plant pro­tec­tion and the ap­prov­al and cir­cu­la­tion of aids to pro­duc­tion;

d.

con­di­tions and ob­lig­a­tions con­cern­ing the sale or pur­chase of ge­net­ic re­sources for food and ag­ri­cul­ture from state-con­trolled gene banks;

e.

the re­cog­ni­tion of des­ig­na­tions of ori­gin re­lat­ing to ag­ri­cul­tur­al pro­duce;

f.

dir­ect pay­ments, mar­ket sup­port meas­ures and sub­sidies for pro­cessing in en­claves and in the Prin­cip­al­ity of Liecht­en­stein that con­cern the ap­plic­a­tion of this Act and of reg­u­la­tions on ag­ri­cul­ture un­der le­gis­la­tion on live­stock epi­dem­ics, an­im­al pro­tec­tion, pro­tec­tion of wa­ters, en­vir­on­ment­al pro­tec­tion or the pro­tec­tion of nature and cul­tur­al her­it­age;

g.

pro­jects that are part of in­ter­na­tion­al ag­ri­cul­tur­al re­search pro­grammes.