Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Bridging sub­sidies are paid to en­sure de­vel­op­ment un­der so­cially ac­cept­able terms.

² Bridging sub­sidies are based on the ap­proved cred­its minus sub­sidies un­der Art­icles 71–76, 77a and 77b, and com­pens­at­ory pay­ments un­der Art­icle 62a of the Fed­er­al Act on the Pro­tec­tion of Wa­ters of 24 Janu­ary 1991¹⁰⁹.

³ Bridging sub­sidies are paid per farm. The sub­sidy for the in­di­vidu­al farm is based on the dif­fer­ence between the gen­er­al dir­ect pay­ments be­fore the change of sys­tem and the sub­sidies ac­cord­ing to art­icles 71 para­graph 1 let­ters a–c and 72 after the change of sys­tem. The dif­fer­ence is de­term­ined on the basis of the struc­ture of the farm be­fore the change of sys­tem.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­cide on:

a.

the cal­cu­la­tion of sub­sidies for in­di­vidu­al farms;

b.

the mod­al­it­ies in the case of trans­fer of own­er­ship of farms and ma­jor struc­tur­al changes;

c.

lim­its in re­la­tion to the tax­able in­come and wealth of the farm­ers above which sub­sidies are re­duced or re­fused, a high­er lim­it be­ing set for mar­ried farm­ers.