Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ In or­der to cre­ate the es­sen­tial basis for im­ple­ment­ing the Act and for mon­it­or­ing its ef­fect, the Con­fed­er­a­tion shall col­lect and re­cord data on cer­tain sec­tors and on in­di­vidu­al busi­nesses con­cern­ing:

a.

the con­duct of ag­ri­cul­tur­al policy meas­ures;

b.

the as­sess­ment of the eco­nom­ic situ­ation in the ag­ri­cul­tur­al sec­tor;

c.

the mon­it­or­ing of the mar­ket situ­ation;

d.

the as­sess­ment of the ef­fects of ag­ri­cul­ture on the nat­ur­al her­it­age and the main­ten­ance of farm­land.

^1bis It shall mon­it­or the eco­nom­ic, eco­lo­gic­al and so­cial situ­ation in the ag­ri­cul­tur­al sec­tor and the pub­lic ser­vices provided by ag­ri­cul­ture.²⁷¹

^1ter It shall as­sess the ef­fect­ive­ness of the meas­ures un­der this Act.²⁷²

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may is­sue dir­ect­ives in or­der to har­mon­ise data col­lec­tion and data re­cord­ing and to stand­ard­ise stat­ist­ics on ag­ri­cul­ture.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may man­date fed­er­al or can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies or oth­er agen­cies to col­lect data and keep a re­gister. Re­mu­ner­a­tion is paid for this ser­vice.

⁴ The fed­er­al agency re­spons­ible may pro­cess the data col­lec­ted for stat­ist­ic­al pur­poses.

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