Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may stip­u­late max­im­um stock levels for each farm for vari­ous live­stock spe­cies.

² If vari­ous live­stock spe­cies are kept on a farm, the sum of the in­di­vidu­al per­cent­age shares of the rel­ev­ant max­im­um stock levels may not ex­ceed 100 per cent.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may al­low ex­cep­tions for:

a.

fed­er­al ex­per­i­ment­al farms and the ag­ri­cul­tur­al re­search in­sti­tutes, the poultry hus­bandry school in Zol­likofen and the Swiss Test­ing Sta­tion for Fat­ten­ing Per­form­ance and Car­cass Qual­ity in Sem­pach;

b.⁸⁰

farms that feed pigs with by-products is­sued from milk and food pro­cessing, thereby ful­filling dis­pos­al man­age­ment tasks in the pub­lic in­terest that are of re­gion­al sig­ni­fic­ance.