Federal Act
on Spatial Planning
(Spatial Planning Act, SPA)¹

¹ Should an ag­ri­cul­tur­al busi­ness with­in the mean­ing of the Fed­er­al Act of 4 Oc­to­ber 1991⁵² on Rur­al Land Rights be un­able to sur­vive without an ad­di­tion­al source of in­come, a per­mit may be gran­ted for con­struc­tion work re­lated to a non-ag­ri­cul­tur­al sub­si­di­ary op­er­a­tion which is closely re­lated to the primary con­cern and loc­ated in ex­ist­ing build­ings and in­stall­a­tions.⁵³ The re­quire­ment set out in Art­icle 24a need not be met.

^1bis Ir­re­spect­ive of wheth­er an ad­di­tion­al source of in­come is re­quired, a per­mit may be gran­ted for sub­si­di­ary op­er­a­tions with a close prac­tic­al con­nec­tion to an ag­ri­cul­tur­al busi­ness; for this pur­pose, a per­mit may be gran­ted for mod­est ex­pan­sions where no space or in­suf­fi­cient space is avail­able in the ex­ist­ing build­ings and in­stall­a­tions.⁵⁴

^1ter In the case of tem­por­ary op­er­at­ing centres, a per­mit may be gran­ted for con­struc­tion work only in the ex­ist­ing build­ings and in­stall­a­tions and only for sub­si­di­ary op­er­a­tions of­fer­ing ac­com­mod­a­tion and res­taur­ant ser­vices.⁵⁵

^1quater In or­der to avoid dis­tor­tions of com­pet­i­tion, non-ag­ri­cul­tur­al sub­si­di­ary op­er­a­tions must sat­is­fy the same stat­utory re­quire­ments and gen­er­al con­di­tions as com­mer­cial op­er­a­tions in sim­il­ar situ­ations in the build­ing zone.⁵⁶

² The sub­si­di­ary op­er­a­tion may be run only by the man­ager of the ag­ri­cul­tur­al busi­ness or his or her spouse or co­hab­it­ee. Em­ploy­ees who work mainly or ex­clus­ively for the sub­si­di­ary op­er­a­tion may only be em­ployed for sub­si­di­ary op­er­a­tions in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 1^bis. In every case, the work of this part of the busi­ness must be pre­dom­in­antly car­ried out by the man­aging fam­ily.⁵⁷

³ The ex­ist­ence of the sub­si­di­ary op­er­a­tion must be re­cor­ded in the Land Re­gister.

⁴ Non-ag­ri­cul­tur­al sub­si­di­ary op­er­a­tions con­sti­tute in­teg­ral parts of the ag­ri­cul­tur­al busi­ness and are sub­ject to the pro­hib­i­tion of di­vi­sion and frag­ment­a­tion of prop­erty pur­su­ant to Art­icles 58–60 of the Fed­er­al Act of 4 Oc­to­ber 1991 on Rur­al Land Rights.

⁵ The pro­vi­sions of the Fed­er­al Act of 4 Oc­to­ber 1991 on Rur­al Land Rights with re­spect to non-ag­ri­cul­tur­al busi­nesses do not ap­ply to sub­si­di­ary op­er­a­tions.