Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Meas­ures con­cern­ing in­di­vidu­al farms shall be sup­por­ted if the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments are met:

a.¹⁴²

the farm must provide an ex­ist­ence in the longer term, if ne­ces­sary with a second in­come from out­side the ag­ri­cul­tur­al sec­tor, and re­quire an ap­pro­pri­ate and at least a nor­mal amount of la­bour;

b.¹⁴³

the ap­plic­ant must run the farm in a com­mer­cially suc­cess­ful man­ner;

c.¹⁴⁴

the farm must be able to provide proof of eco­lo­gic­al per­form­ance un­der the terms of Art­icle 70a para­graph 2 after the in­vest­ment;

d.¹⁴⁵

the fund­ing and ac­cept­ab­il­ity of the planned in­vest­ment in view of fu­ture eco­nom­ic con­di­tions must be guar­an­teed;

e.

the ap­plic­ant must con­trib­ute his or her own funds and loans as far as pos­sible;

f.

the ap­plic­ant must have a suit­able train­ing;

g.¹⁴⁶

the own­er must run their own farm or do so after in­vest­ment;

h.¹⁴⁷

the ten­ant farm­er must prove that they have the right to carry out struc­tur­al meas­ures or, in the case of in­vest­ment loans, that the ten­ancy agree­ment has been entered in the land re­gister for the fixed dur­a­tion of the loan in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 290 of the Swiss Code of Ob­lig­a­tions¹⁴⁸.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may set the la­bour lim­it lower than that stated in para­graph 1, let­ter a:

a.

in or­der to en­sure the farm is op­er­at­ive or to guar­an­tee an ad­equate pop­u­la­tion dens­ity;

b.

in the case of meas­ures aimed at di­ver­si­fy­ing activ­it­ies with­in the ag­ri­cul­tur­al or closely as­so­ci­ated sec­tors.¹⁴⁹

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide for ex­emp­tions from para­graph 1 let­ter g.¹⁵⁰