Article 3
In providing socio-economic guidance, the express aim of the services and special departments referred to in Article 2 (a) shall be: (a) to inform generally the agricultural population as to the possibilities open to them for improving their socio-economic situation; (b) to study and examine individual cases with a view to adjustment to changing conditions; (c) to put persons interested in changes of policy on their farms in contact with the competent advisory service; (d) to give to those concerned information and advice on the following matters: continuation of an occupation in agriculture; choice of an occupation outside agriculture; retirement from all occupational activity; (e) to inform those concerned as to the opportunities existing for persons engaged in agriculture to receive further training and as to the prospects for their children in agriculture and in other occupations; (f) to direct interested persons, according to the decisions contemplated or taken by such persons, to the competent specialised services. 1 OJ No L 94, 28.4.1970, p. 13. 2 OJ No 136, 17.12.1962, p. 2892/62.