Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ In­so­far as self-help meas­ures men­tioned in Art­icle 8 para­graph 1 come un­der threat from busi­nesses that do not com­ply with the col­lect­ively agreed meas­ures, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may in­tro­duce reg­u­la­tions if the or­gan­isa­tion:²²

a.

is rep­res­ent­at­ive;

b.

is not act­ive in pro­duc­tion, pro­cessing or sales;

c.

has ap­proved the self-help meas­ures by a clear ma­jor­ity.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may ob­lige non-mem­bers of an or­gan­isa­tion to con­trib­ute to­wards fund­ing self-help meas­ures men­tioned in Art­icle 8 para­graph 1 if the con­di­tions out­lined in para­graph 1 are met and the or­gan­isa­tion re­ceives con­tri­bu­tions from its mem­bers for fund­ing self-help meas­ures. Such con­tri­bu­tions may not be used to cov­er the or­gan­isa­tion’s ad­min­is­trat­ive ex­penses.²³

³ With re­gard to ad­apt­ing pro­duc­tion and sup­ply to mar­ket de­mand, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may is­sue reg­u­la­tions solely in case of ex­cep­tion­al de­vel­op­ments that are not caused by struc­tur­al prob­lems.²⁴

⁴ Products sold dir­ectly to the pub­lic may not be made sub­ject to the reg­u­la­tions men­tioned in para­graph 1, and farm­ers who sell dir­ect to the pub­lic may not be made li­able for con­tri­bu­tions un­der para­graph 2 based on the volume of products thus sold.