- Non-agricultural beekeeping operations may produce and market apiary products under the Bud label. They conclude a licence contract with Bio Suisse to this end.
- Apiarists who are responsible for a non-organic farming operation cannot be approved for beekeeping under the Bud label.
- An apiary on a Bud holding may be non-organic if it is rented out to a third person who has no responsibility for a Bud farm.
- Bio Suisse may define certain areas or regions from which products must not be marketed under the Bud label.
- A Bud farm may keep its bees in accordance with the minimum requirements set out in the Instructions if the products are not labeled with the Bud label.