Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall is­sue dir­ect­ives and cri­ter­ia for clas­si­fy­ing the qual­ity of slaughtered cattle, horses, pigs, sheep and goats.

² It may:

a.

de­clare the use of these clas­si­fic­a­tion cri­ter­ia to be man­dat­ory;

b.

re­quire qual­ity clas­si­fic­a­tion to be car­ried out by a neut­ral agency in cer­tain cases;

c.⁸⁴

reg­u­late the pro­ced­ure for as­cer­tain­ing the car­cass weight.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may del­eg­ate the task of de­term­in­ing the clas­si­fic­a­tion cri­ter­ia to the FO­AG.