Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall sub­mit a re­port by 30 June 2016 that in­cludes a meth­od for as­sess­ing the use of ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied plants. This re­port must in­clude an opin­ion on wheth­er ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied plants of­fer ad­vant­ages for pro­du­cers, con­sumers and the en­vir­on­ment in com­par­is­on with stand­ard ag­ri­cul­tur­al products and aids to pro­duc­tion. On the basis of the meth­od presen­ted, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall draw up a cost-ef­fect­ive­ness bal­ance sheet for Switzer­land of the ge­net­ic­ally mod­i­fied plants that ex­ist when the amended ver­sion of this Act of 22 March 2013²⁸⁸ comes in­to force.

² In con­sulta­tion with the can­tons and the rel­ev­ant sec­tors, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall set out the aims and strategies for re­cog­nising and mon­it­or­ing res­ist­ance to an­ti­bi­ot­ics and the re­duc­tion of the use of an­ti­bi­ot­ics by the end of 2014.

³ When draw­ing up the aims and strategies men­tioned in para­graph 2, the fol­low­ing in par­tic­u­lar must be taken in­to ac­count:

a.

the en­vir­on­ment­al aims of ag­ri­cul­ture;

b.

in­ter­na­tion­al re­com­mend­a­tions and guidelines;

c.

cur­rent sci­entif­ic know­ledge.

⁴ On the basis of re­ports, the Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons shall ex­am­ine wheth­er the aims men­tioned in para­graph 2 have been achieved and, if ne­ces­sary, take cor­res­pond­ing meas­ures.