Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The term ag­ri­cul­ture in­cludes:

a.

products from ar­able and live­stock farm­ing;

b.

the pre­par­a­tion, stor­age and sale of the cor­res­pond­ing products on the farm;

c.

the man­age­ment of areas of near-nat­ur­al land.

^1bis The meas­ures in Parts 5 and 6 ap­ply to ag­ri­cul­tur­al activ­it­ies. They are con­di­tion­al on an activ­ity in line with the prin­ciple of para­graph 1, let­ters a–c.¹³

² The meas­ures in Part 2 Chapter 1 and those in­dic­ated in Parts 5 to 7 ap­ply to hor­ti­cul­tur­al busi­nesses.¹⁴

³ The meas­ures in Part 2 Chapter 1, Part 5 and Part 7 Chapter 4 ap­ply to pro­fes­sion­al fish­ing.¹⁵

^3bis The meas­ures in Part 2 Chapter 1, Part 5, Part 6 and Part 7 Chapter 4 ap­ply to aquacul­ture products, al­gae, in­sects and oth­er liv­ing or­gan­isms that are not products from ar­able and live­stock farm­ing and are used as food­stuffs and feed­stuffs. These meas­ures are con­di­tion­al on an activ­ity in line with the prin­ciple of para­graph 1 let­ters a–c.¹⁶

⁴ The meas­ures lis­ted in Part 2 Chapter 1, Part 6 and Part 7 Chapter 2 ap­ply to bee­keep­ing.¹⁷