# 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, Article 13: Specific requirements relating to the farm advisory system

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The relevant authority shall ensure that advisors working within the farm advisory system are suitably qualified and regularly trained.
2. The relevant authority shall ensure the separation between advice and checks. In that respect, and without prejudice to the law applying in the constituent nation concerning public access to documents, the relevant authority shall ensure that the selected and designated bodies as referred to in Article 12(1) do not disclose any personal or individual information or data they obtain in the course of their advisory activity to persons other than the beneficiary who is managing the holding concerned, with the exception of any irregularity or infringement found in the course of their activity which is covered by an obligation laid down in ... law to inform a public authority, in particular in the case of criminal offences.
3. The relevant authority shall provide, primarily by electronic means, the potential beneficiary with the appropriate list of selected and designated bodies as referred in Article 12(1).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1306/article/13 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1306/article-13
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