Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Un­less the Con­fed­er­a­tion is re­spons­ible, im­ple­ment­a­tion is the task of the can­tons.

² The can­tons shall is­sue the ne­ces­sary pro­vi­sions for im­ple­ment­a­tion and in­form the EAER ac­cord­ingly.

³ The can­tons shall des­ig­nate agen­cies or or­gan­isa­tions to be re­spons­ible for im­ple­ment­a­tion and su­per­vi­sion.

⁴ If a can­ton fails to draw up pro­vi­sions for im­ple­ment­a­tion in good time, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall do so as a tem­por­ary meas­ure.

⁵ For im­ple­ment­ing the meas­ures con­cern­ing dir­ect pay­ments, the can­tons use defined ba­sic data, re­cord the ne­ces­sary land and how it is used as well as the oth­er ne­ces­sary ob­jects in the geo­graph­ic­al in­form­a­tion sys­tem in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 165e and cal­cu­late the sub­sidies for each farm on the basis of these data.²⁵⁸