Commentaries: Art. 3

The term agriculture includes:
1. products from arable and livestock farming;
2. the preparation, storage and sale of the corresponding products on the farm;
3. the management of areas of near-natural land.
The measures in Parts 5 and 6 apply to agricultural activities. They are conditional on an activity in line with the principle of paragraph 1, letters a–c.¹
The measures in Part 2 Chapter 1 and those indicated in Parts 5 to 7 apply to horticultural businesses.²
The measures in Part 2 Chapter 1, Part 5 and Part 7 Chapter 4 apply to professional fishing.³ 3bis. The measures in Part 2 Chapter 1, Part 5, Part 6 and Part 7 Chapter 4 apply to aquaculture products, algae, insects and other living organisms that are not products from arable and livestock farming and are used as foodstuffs and feedstuffs. These measures are conditional on an activity in line with the principle of paragraph 1 letters a–c.⁴
The measures listed in Part 2 Chapter 1, Part 6 and Part 7 Chapter 2 apply to beekeeping.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). ↩
Amended by No I of the FA of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Jan. 2008 (AS 2007 6095;BBl 2006 6337). ↩
Amended by No I of the FA of 16 June 2023, in force since 1 Jan. 2025 (AS 2024 623;BBl 2020 3955). ↩
Inserted by No I of the FA of 16 June 2023, in force since 1 Jan. 2025 (AS 2024 623;BBl 2020 3955). ↩
Inserted by No I of the FA of 22 June 2007, in force since 1 Jan. 2008 (AS 2007 6095;BBl 2006 6337). ↩

Art. 3