Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons may work with busi­nesses and or­gan­isa­tions in or­der to im­ple­ment the Act or set up ap­pro­pri­ate or­gan­isa­tions to do so.

² The co­oper­a­tion between these busi­nesses and or­gan­isa­tions shall be su­per­vised by the au­thor­it­ies. The tasks and powers trans­ferred to them must be de­tailed by the rel­ev­ant au­thor­it­ies, to whom they must sub­mit re­ports and ac­counts; this does not ap­ply to cer­ti­fic­a­tion bod­ies to which con­trol of des­ig­nated products un­der Art­icle 14 of this Act and Art­icle 41a of the Forest Act of 4 Oc­to­ber 1991²⁸⁹ has been trans­ferred.²⁹⁰ Par­lia­ment­ary con­trol may be ex­er­cised in the Con­fed­er­a­tion and the can­tons.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil and the can­tons may au­thor­ise the busi­nesses and or­gan­isa­tions who work with them to levy an ap­pro­pri­ate charge for their activ­it­ies. Their rates must be ap­proved by the EAER.