#2026-323France sets national rules for agricultural advice and support structures
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This decree sets the national rulebook for the France services agriculture network, which helps people start, transfer, or reshape agricultural businesses. It defines who can be approved, what skills advisers must have, and what each type of adviser must do, including diagnosis, guidance, training support, referrals, case tracking, and data entry into the local registry. For agricultural advice providers, this means stricter staffing, training, reporting, and service-quality rules, plus duties to protect business secrets and work through shared diagnostic tools. For farmers, future farmers, and people handing over farms, it should make support more structured and more consistent across regions.
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Key Changes
- Creates national rules for accrediting agricultural advice and support structures in the France services agriculture network.
- Sets detailed competency, training, reporting, and service-quality requirements for advisers.
- Requires shared diagnostic tools, local registry data entry, and controlled referrals between installation, training, and farm-transfer support.
Obligations
What this law requires
Approved advisory and support structures must use a common diagnostic tool shared by all approved structures in the same region when assisting users with emerging installation projects, existing installation projects, transmission projects, and skills assessments/training pathways.
Structures seeking approval to advise on agricultural installation projects must have the human and material resources needed to carry out one or more of the missions for project construction, development, and/or support, within one or more departments of the same region.
Structures seeking approval to advise on agricultural transfer projects must have the human and material resources needed to carry out the missions relating to transmission support and referral, within one or more departments of the same region.
Approved structures must record in the departmental unique register the information relating to users advised and supported, including project data and, where relevant, users' training choices, in accordance with applicable regulations.
At the time of the approval application, the applicant must demonstrate that its advisers have, from the start of their duties, the required agricultural-sector experience and the common technical and interpersonal competencies listed in the decree.