Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion may provide sub­sidies to re­duce the premi­ums on private-sec­tor crop in­sur­ance policies, provided the in­sur­ance policy cov­ers large-scale risks such as drought and frost.

² The sub­sidies shall be gran­ted to the in­sured farm­ers. The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall pay the sub­sidy to the in­surer with which the farm­ers are in­sured. The in­surer shall use the sub­sidies solely for the pur­pose of re­du­cing the in­sur­ance premi­ums.

³ The fed­er­al sub­sidy shall amount to 30 per cent of the premi­um.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall stip­u­late the re­quire­ments and ob­lig­a­tions for the pro­vi­sion of sub­sidies, their amount and the min­im­um ex­cess for the in­sured party.

⁵ If risks are in­sur­able un­der the sub­sid­ised crop in­sur­ance policies, oth­er forms of fed­er­al sup­port for loss com­pens­a­tion are ex­cluded.