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Art. 181

910.1AgricAFederal ActJan 1, 1999Original source
  1. The agencies responsible for implementation shall regulate the necessary control measures and data collection as required for implementing this Act, its implementing provisions or the rulings based thereon.1 1bis. The Federal Council may draw up regulations in order to ensure that, for the implementation of this Act and of other legislation on agriculture, control activities are uniform, standardised and complementary and that the necessary information is exchanged among the control agencies responsible.2
  2. Individuals, businesses or organisations that prompt the need for controls through their unlawful conduct, or hinder or prevent controls are liable for any costs incurred.
  3. The Federal Council may delegate certain control measures and data collection to the cantons.
  4. It may specify charges for controls that do not result in a complaint, in particular for:
    1. phytosanitary controls;
    2. controls of seeds and seedlings;
    3. control analyses;
    4. fodder controls.3
  5. It may stipulate that the importer has to pay for special controls owing to known or new risks in connection with certain aids to agricultural production or plants.4
  6. It may stipulate further charges insofar as Switzerland has undertaken to levy such charges under the terms of an international agreement.5
  7. The Confederation may finance laboratory analyses for the control of plant protection substance provisions.6

Footnotes

  1. Amended by No I of the FA of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Jan. 2008 (AS 2007 6095;BBl 2006 6337). ↩

  2. Inserted by No I of the FA of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Jan. 2008 (AS 2007 6095;BBl 2006 6337). ↩

  3. Inserted by No I of the FA of 22 March 2013, in force since 1 Jan. 2014 (AS 2013 3463,3863;BBl 2012 2075). ↩

  4. Inserted by No I of the FA of 22 March 2013, in force since 1 Jan. 2014 (AS 2013 3463,3863;BBl 2012 2075). ↩

  5. Inserted by No I of the FA of 22 March 2013, in force since 1 Jan. 2014 (AS 2013 3463,3863;BBl 2012 2075). ↩

  6. Inserted by No I of the FA of 16 June 2023, in force since 1 Jan. 2025 (AS 2024 623;BBl 2020 3955). ↩

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