Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The agen­cies re­spons­ible for im­ple­ment­a­tion shall reg­u­late the ne­ces­sary con­trol meas­ures and data col­lec­tion as re­quired for im­ple­ment­ing this Act, its im­ple­ment­ing pro­vi­sions or the rul­ings based there­on.²⁵⁹

^1bis The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may draw up reg­u­la­tions in or­der to en­sure that, for the im­ple­ment­a­tion of this Act and of oth­er le­gis­la­tion on ag­ri­cul­ture, con­trol activ­it­ies are uni­form, stand­ard­ised and com­ple­ment­ary and that the ne­ces­sary in­form­a­tion is ex­changed among the con­trol agen­cies re­spons­ible.²⁶⁰

² In­di­vidu­als, busi­nesses or or­gan­isa­tions that prompt the need for con­trols through their un­law­ful con­duct, or hinder or pre­vent con­trols are li­able for any costs in­curred.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may del­eg­ate cer­tain con­trol meas­ures and data col­lec­tion to the can­tons.

⁴ It may spe­cify charges for con­trols that do not res­ult in a com­plaint, in par­tic­u­lar for:

a.

phytosan­it­ary con­trols;

b.

con­trols of seeds and seed­lings;

c.

con­trol ana­lyses;

d.

fod­der con­trols.²⁶¹

⁵ It may stip­u­late that the im­port­er has to pay for spe­cial con­trols ow­ing to known or new risks in con­nec­tion with cer­tain aids to ag­ri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion or plants.²⁶²

⁶ It may stip­u­late fur­ther charges in­so­far as Switzer­land has un­der­taken to levy such charges un­der the terms of an in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ment.²⁶³