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Agriculture and food

Land, farm operation, food, production and agricultural resources.

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Switzerland: should SAFER concepts be copied into the dossier ?

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No. Use the relevant Swiss acquisition and authority requirements rather than a French notification model.

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Land, farm operation, food, production and agricultural resources.

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Switzerland: should SAFER concepts be copied into the dossier ?

No. Use the relevant Swiss acquisition and authority requirements rather than a French notification model.

rural : art. L141-1rural : art. L143-1OFAG — Droit foncierVaud — Droit foncier rural

Switzerland: how should inputs be traced ?

Connect purchases, use and relevant land or production units. An invoice alone may not explain actual application.

INAO — Entering organic productionINAO — Organic control and certificationOrdonnance sur l’agriculture biologique — art. 8, reconversion normaleOrdonnance sur l’agriculture biologique — art. 25, producteursOFAG — Organic products

Switzerland: what links crop and authorised use ?

Compare planned application with the exact product’s applicable conditions and restrictions.

Agriculture — Individual certificate and approvalAgriculture — Professional use of plant-protection productsOFEV — Professional permitsConfederation — Official PPh permit portal

Switzerland: what connects old and proposed parcels ?

Retain allocation plans and correspondence tables. Mark unmatched references for clarification.

rural : art. L123-1rural : art. L123-4CC : Art. 703OFAG — Integral land improvements

Sources

Which official references should you consult?

  1. rural : art. L141-1legifrance.gouv.fr
  2. rural : art. L143-1legifrance.gouv.fr
  3. OFAG — Droit foncierblw.admin.ch
  4. Vaud — Droit foncier ruralvd.ch
  5. Agriculture — Logics and authorization to operateagriculture.gouv.fr
  6. rural : art. L331-2legifrance.gouv.fr
  7. Vaud — Recognition of farms and operatorsvd.ch
  8. Vaud — Actual recognition procedurevd.ch
  9. INAO — Entering organic productioninao.gouv.fr
  10. INAO — Organic control and certificationinao.gouv.fr
  11. Ordonnance sur l’agriculture biologique — art. 8, reconversion normalefedlex.admin.ch
  12. Ordonnance sur l’agriculture biologique — art. 25, producteursfedlex.admin.ch
  13. OFAG — Organic productsblw.admin.ch
  14. DGCCRF — Food-labeling ruleseconomie.gouv.fr
  15. conso : art. L412-1legifrance.gouv.fr
  16. LDAl — art. 12, obligation d’étiqueter et de renseignerfedlex.admin.ch
  17. LDAl — art. 13, étiquetage particulierfedlex.admin.ch
  18. OSAV — Information on food labelsblv.admin.ch
  19. Agriculture — Novel-food definition and authorizationagriculture.gouv.fr
  20. Règlement (UE) 2015/2283 — article 6publications.europa.eu
  21. ODAlOUs — art. 16, mise sur le marché des nouvelles sortes de denréesfedlex.admin.ch
  22. ODAlOUs — art. 17, autorisationfedlex.admin.ch
  23. OSAV — Novel-food authorizationblv.admin.ch
  24. Agriculture — Individual certificate and approvalagriculture.gouv.fr
  25. Agriculture — Professional use of plant-protection productsagriculture.gouv.fr
  26. OFEV — Professional permitsbafu.admin.ch
  27. Confederation — Official PPh permit portalpermis-pph.admin.ch
  28. Agriculture — Quantitative water managementagriculture.gouv.fr
  29. env : art. L214-1legifrance.gouv.fr
  30. env : art. L211-3legifrance.gouv.fr
  31. Vaud — Actual pumping authorizationvd.ch
  32. Vaud — River pumping restrictionsvd.ch
  33. Agriculture — Vitiplantationagriculture.gouv.fr
  34. rural : art. L665-5legifrance.gouv.fr
  35. Vaud — Vitivinicultural productionvd.ch
  36. OFAG — Vigneblw.admin.ch
  37. rural : art. L123-1legifrance.gouv.fr
  38. rural : art. L123-4legifrance.gouv.fr
  39. CC : Art. 703fedlex.admin.ch
  40. OFAG — Integral land improvementsblw.admin.ch
  41. Code rural — L631-24, version effective 20 August 2026legifrance.gouv.fr
  42. Agriculture — Agricultural contractingagriculture.gouv.fr
  43. Agriculture — EGalim proposal announcementagriculture.gouv.fr
  44. OFAG — Interprofessions et mesures d’entraideblw.admin.ch
  45. OFAG — Milk and milk productsblw.admin.ch

Texts cited last checked: 2 November 2026

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