Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The ni­tro­gen and phos­phor­us losses from ag­ri­cul­ture shall be re­duced ap­pro­pri­ately by 2030 re­l­at­ive to the mean value for the years 2014–2016.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall spe­cify the re­duc­tion tar­gets and the meth­od for as­sess­ing achieve­ment of these tar­gets. In do­ing so, it shall also be guided by the aim of elim­in­at­ing im­por­ted ar­ti­fi­cial fer­til­isers by pro­mot­ing the use of nu­tri­ents based on in­di­gen­ous farm­yard ma­nure and in­di­gen­ous bio­mass, tak­ing due ac­count of eco­lo­gic­al and eco­nom­ic con­straints. Be­fore set­ting its re­quire­ments, it shall con­sult the can­tons, the sec­tor­al and pro­du­cer or­gan­isa­tions con­cerned and oth­er stake­hold­er or­gan­isa­tions. It shall de­term­ine the re­port­ing re­quire­ments.

³ The sec­tor­al and pro­du­cer or­gan­isa­tions con­cerned and oth­er stake­hold­er or­gan­isa­tions may take the ne­ces­sary re­duc­tion meas­ures and re­port reg­u­larly to the Con­fed­er­a­tion on the nature and ef­fect of the meas­ures they have taken.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may des­ig­nate the or­gan­isa­tions re­ferred to in para­graphs 2 and 3.

⁵ It may ap­point a private sec­tor agency to per­form cer­tain tasks, such as as­sess­ing meas­ures for re­du­cing ni­tro­gen and phos­phor­us losses, mon­it­or­ing the res­ults or provid­ing ad­vis­ory ser­vices, and may of­fer fin­an­cial sup­port for such activ­it­ies.