The present Ordinance implements the Agriculture Law of the Canton Aargau of 1 December 2011. Article 1 establishes that compensation for special ecological services shall be based on agreements with whole entities or on individual measures. The text consists of 12 articles divided into 6 Parts as follows: General provisions (1); Management agreement (2); Measures for the protection of drinking water resources, water or soil (3); Execution (4); Legal aid (5); Final provisions (6).