The functions of the inter-regional body shall be, in particular:
(a) to provide basic and advanced training for advisory service leaders, for general advisers and specialist advisers;
(b) to develop, in close collaboration with appropriate staff involved in research and advisory work and with universities, basic and advanced training programmes for advisers;
(c) to organize periodic seminars bringing together advisers and the teaching staff of the inter-regional body to assess the results of advisory work and to propose any consequent adjustments to training courses;
(d) to study and develop advisory techniques appropriate to the problems of farmers in different areas, and to assess training requirements in the light of the results achieved by the advisers working within the framework of the programmes or measures referred to in Article 3 (2) (a).
