Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may del­eg­ate the fol­low­ing tasks to private or­gan­isa­tions:

a.

con­duct­ing tem­por­ary mar­ket re­lief meas­ures in the case of sea­son­al or oth­er tem­por­ary sur­pluses in the meat mar­ket;

b.

su­per­vising mar­ket activ­it­ies in pub­lic mar­kets and in abat­toirs;

c.

clas­si­fy­ing liv­ing and slaughtered an­im­als ac­cord­ing to their qual­ity.⁸⁶

² The private or­gan­isa­tions shall be re­mu­ner­ated for car­ry­ing out these tasks.⁸⁷

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall ap­point an agency to veri­fy wheth­er the private or­gan­isa­tions have car­ried out their tasks cost-ef­fect­ively.