Principle and scope
Article 12
1. Member States shall establish 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. 2. The farm advisory system shall cover at least the following: (a) obligations at farm level resulting from the statutory management requirements and the standards for good agricultural and environmental condition of land as laid down in Chapter I of Title VI; (b) the agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment as laid down in Chapter 3 of Title III of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 and the maintenance of the agricultural area as referred to in point (c) of Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013; (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; (d) requirements, at the level of beneficiaries as defined by Member States for implementing Article 11(3) of Directive 2000/60/EC; (e) requirements at the level of beneficiaries as defined by Member States for implementing Article 55 of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, in particular the requirement referred to in Article 14 of Directive 2009/128/EC. 3. The farm advisory system may also cover, in particular: (a) the promotion of conversions of farms and the diversification of their economic activity; (b) risk management and the introduction of appropriate preventive actions to address natural disasters, catastrophic events and animal and plant diseases; (c) the minimum requirements established by national law, as referred to in Article 28(3) and 29(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013; (d) the information related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity and protection of water, as set out in Annex I to this Regulation.