Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The in­come from cus­toms du­ties on ag­ri­cul­tur­al products and food­stuffs for the peri­od 2009–2016 is ear­marked for a spe­cif­ic pur­pose, namely to fund ac­com­pa­ny­ing meas­ures in re­la­tion to the im­ple­ment­a­tion of a free-trade agree­ment with the European Uni­on re­gard­ing ag­ri­cul­tur­al products and food­stuffs or of a WTO agree­ment.

² In par­tic­u­lar, the fund­ing must be used for ac­com­pa­ny­ing meas­ures to sup­port ag­ri­cul­ture.

³ If ne­go­ti­ations are un­suc­cess­ful, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall re­lease the funds for oth­er uses.

⁴ If the pro­posed ac­com­pa­ny­ing meas­ures re­quire less fund­ing than that ear­marked for this spe­cif­ic pur­pose, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may re­lease the re­main­ing amount for oth­er uses.