Article 5
1. In order to enable persons aged eighteen or over engaged in agriculture to acquire new agricultural skills, or to improve those which they already possess, so that they can integrate into modern agriculture, Member States shall set up schemes to encourage the vocational advancement and adaptation of farmers and hired and family agricultural workers. Such chemes shall not cover the normal agricultural courses of study organised as part of secondary or higher education systems. 2. Member States may, acting in accordance with the general provisions to be adopted hereafter by the Council under the procedure laid down in Article 43 of the Treaty: - vary according to region the operation of schemes of encouragement as provided for in paragraph 1; - refrain from applying in certain regions all or some of the measures provided for in Article 6.