{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1306/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1306/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/1306",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 352/78, (EC) No 165/94, (EC) No 2799/98, (EC) No 814/2000, (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EC) No 485/2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1306",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Principle and scopeFarm Advisory System",
  "text": "1. The relevant authority must have in place a system for advising beneficiaries on land management and farm management ('farm advisory system'). That farm advisory system shall be operated by designated public bodies and/or selected private bodies.\n2. The farm advisory system shall cover at least the following:\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) measures at farm level provided for in rural development programmes for farm modernisation, competitiveness building, sectoral integration, innovation and market orientation, as well as for the promotion of entrepreneurship;\n(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n3. The farm advisory system may also cover, in particular:\n(a) the promotion of conversions of farms and the diversification of their economic activity;\n(b) risk management and the introduction of appropriate preventive actions to address natural disasters, catastrophic events and animal and plant diseases;\n(c) the minimum requirements established by the law applying in the constituent nation, as referred to in Article 28(3) and 29(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013;\n(d) the information related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity and protection of water, as set out in Annex I to this Regulation.\nThe relevant authority must have in place a system for advising beneficiaries on land management and farm management (“farm advisory system”). That farm advisory system shall be operated by designated public bodies and/or selected private bodies. That system shall cover ... the maintenance of the agricultural area as referred to in point (c) of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013.",
  "extent": "E",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 12 substituted for Arts. 12-15 (31.1.2020 in so far as it relates to the Common Agricultural Policy direct payment schemes) by The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/90), regs. 1(2), 5(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 12(1) substituted (31.12.2020 in so far as it relates to common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/763), regs. 1, 5(1)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 12(2)(a) revoked (E.) (1.1.2024) by The Agriculture (Removal of Cross-Compliance and Miscellaneous Revocations and Amendments, etc.) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/816), reg. 1(1), Sch. Pt. 1 para. 1 Table 2 (with Sch. Pt. 2 para. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 12(2)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/763), regs. 1, 5(1)(b)(i) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(b), 3(5)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 12(2)(d) omitted (E.) (18.12.2024) by virtue of The Rural Development and Farming Advice Service (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1221), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 12(2)(e) omitted (E.) (18.12.2024) by virtue of The Rural Development and Farming Advice Service (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1221), regs. 1(1), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 12(3)(c) substituted (31.12.2020 in so far as it relates to common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/763), regs. 1, 5(1)(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 12 omitted (E.) (1.1.2021 insofar as relates to direct payments) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers and Cross-Compliance (Simplifications) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1387), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(a) (with reg. 1(2)); and words in Art. 12 omitted (N.I.) (25.2.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (Simplifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/42), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 12 substituted (E.) (1.1.2021 insofar as relates to direct payments) by The Direct Payments to Farmers and Cross-Compliance (Simplifications) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1387), regs. 1(1), 4(2)(b) (with reg. 1(2)); and words in Art. 12 substituted (N.I.) (25.2.2021) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Simplifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/42), regs. 1(1), 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision applies to England only; separate versions have been created for Scotland and Northern Ireland and Wales"
    }
  ],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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