S.L. 117.39 Art. 22Protection of data. 

(1) The farm advisory service providers shall treat all information obtained during the advisory activity as strictly confidential and any personal data that such service providers may process shall fully comply with the principles relating to the processing of personal data pursuant to Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/ 46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation):

(2) The obligations referred under sub-regulation (1) shall continue to apply in the event that a farm advisory service provider loses recognition or is de-listed from the registry:

Provided that any personal data which is being processed and is no longer necessary shall be erased by the farm advisory service provider without undue delay.