Azores will start having certified entities for agricultural and forest advising
Agricultural associations and cooperatives and forest enterprises and associations can apply for getting certification for rendering services predicted by the systems of agricultural and forest advising that the Government of the Azores decided to create to promote the supported and harmonic development of the rural surrounding.
The rules, to which there must subdue the entities interested in rendering the services at issue, addressed at agricultural and forest producers and to owners of forested areas, are established in a decree of the Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and Forestry.
The diploma establishes, also, the thematic areas of several services to be guaranteed by each entity recognized as part of the Agricultural Advising System and of the Forest Advising System, projected to guarantee qualified technical support and of quality to the producers.
In the islands in which there won’t be any certified entities, the advising services will be secured by the Regional Administration, the new legislation determines.
It still establishes that the tasks in reference will be guaranteed by means of the signature of contracts of services rendered implicating the recognized entity and the respective beneficiary.