Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Wines are di­vided in­to the fol­low­ing classes:

a.

wines with an ap­pel­la­tion d’ori­gine con­trôlée;

b.

do­mest­ic wines;

c.

table wines.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall draw up a list of the cri­ter­ia gov­ern­ing the clas­si­fic­a­tion of wines with an ap­pel­la­tion d’ori­gine con­trôléeand do­mest­ic wines. It may stip­u­late a min­im­um level of nat­ur­al sug­ar con­tent and a max­im­um yield per unit of land area, tak­ing in­to ac­count the pro­duc­tion con­di­tions spe­cif­ic to a giv­en area.

³ Oth­er­wise, the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies shall set out the re­quire­ments for each cri­terion with re­gard to wines with an ap­pel­la­tion d’ori­gine con­trôlée and do­mest­ic wines pro­duced with­in their bor­ders and un­der their own tra­di­tion­al des­ig­na­tion.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall stip­u­late the re­quire­ments con­cern­ing do­mest­ic wines that are sold without a tra­di­tion­al des­ig­na­tion and for table wines. It may define the terms re­lat­ing spe­cific­ally to wine, in par­tic­u­lar tra­di­tion­al terms, and stip­u­late their use.

⁵ It shall draw up reg­u­la­tions for the de­clas­si­fic­a­tion of wines that do not meet the min­im­um re­quire­ments.

⁶ The terms of Art­icle 16 para­graphs 6, 6^bis, 7 and 16b ap­ply to the la­belling of wines with an ap­pel­la­tion d’ori­gine con­trôlée and of oth­er wines with geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tions.