Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ In or­der to gath­er stat­ist­ics on im­ports, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may de­cide that cer­tain ag­ri­cul­tur­al products re­quire an im­port per­mit.

² In view of the pro­tect­ive meas­ures that the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may in­tro­duce, the EAER is au­thor­ised to sus­pend the is­su­ing of im­port per­mits un­til the Fed­er­al Coun­cil has taken a de­cision.

³ The ap­plic­a­tion of pro­tec­tion clauses in in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments on the ag­ri­cul­tur­al sec­tor are gov­erned by Art­icle 11 of the Cus­toms Tar­iff Act of 9 Oc­to­ber 1986⁵⁷.

⁴ Para­graph 2 does not ap­ply to the ap­plic­a­tion of pro­tec­tion clauses in in­ter­na­tion­al agree­ments un­der:

a.

Art­icle 1 of the Fed­er­al Act of 25 June 1982⁵⁸ on In­ter­na­tion­al Trade Meas­ures; and

b.

Art­icle 7 of the Cus­toms Tar­iff Act of 9 Oc­to­ber 1986.