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The AICC has 175 members advising on in excess of 2 million acres of arable land in the U.K.
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Council members elected for 2004 are as follows:
| Chairman | Patrick Stephenson |
| Scotland Representative | Bryan Chalmers |
| Southern Representative | Alan Bide |
| Southern Representative | John Watts |
| Central Representative | Martin Eudall |
| Central Representative | Andrew Cotton |
| Northern Representative | Ruth East |
| Western Representative | Peter Griffith |
| Eastern - North Representative | Mike Thompson |
| Eastern - South Representative | Caroline Hayes |
| South Eastern Representative | Tony Hardwick |
| President | Mr Richard Butler |
Members are bound by the Code of Conduct.
- Members of the Association must maintain a high standard of professional practice, conduct and integrity and abstain from any behaviour which may tend to discredit the profession of which he is a member.
- Each member will advise to the best of his ability on all aspects of crop husbandry and encourage the safe and proper use, application, storage and disposal of crop protection products with particular regard to operators, consumers, the environment and to the aims and intentions of all current legislation and codes of practice.
- No member shall:
- Be employed by or have any financial relationship with any individual, firm or company which shall in the opinion by the Council be likely to prejudice the impartiality of his advise to clients, nor shall be engaged in any trade profession or occupation which may in the opinion of the Council become prejudicial as aforesaid.
- Be in any way connected with or have any relationship with any individual, firm or company if such connection or relationship might be or become prejudicial to or inconsistent with his duty to any of his clients without making a full disclosure to that client and AICC Council.
- Disclose the affairs of any of his clients to any person or use for his own advantage, or to that of any other person, information concerning a client's affairs.
- Engage in any work outside the sphere of his competence
- Seek to obtain instructions from a client in a manner considered by the Council to be unprofessional or seek to procure or to accept instructions from a client for whom another member of the Association is already acting, without notifying that member.
- Make any change for his service in a manner considered to be unprofessional be the Council.
- Be employed by or have any financial relationship with any individual, firm or company which shall in the opinion by the Council be likely to prejudice the impartiality of his advise to clients, nor shall be engaged in any trade profession or occupation which may in the opinion of the Council become prejudicial as aforesaid.
- Subject to complying with the foregoing Clauses any member may engage in farming, or other occupation on his own account or in partnership or in such manner as ha shall think fit.
- If it shall appear from information in the profession of the Council that any member is in breach of the provisions of this Code of Conduct a special meeting of the Council may be summoned to consider what action should be taken against him.
- The Council may deal with any such member in any of the following ways:
- remove him from membership of the Association;
- suspend him from all or any of the privileges of membership (including associate membership);
- remove or suspend him from membership of the Council or any Committee or from any office or appointment connected with the Association.
- remove him from membership of the Association;
- Any such suspension shall be for so long as and upon such other terms generally as the Council shall think fit.
- No such resolution shall be passed unless carried be a majority of at least two-thirds of those present and voting at a special meeting of the Council of which not less than 21 days previous notice in writing giving particulars of the charges against the member concerned (a quorum at such meeting being not less than one half of the members of the Council) excluding the member concerned if he be a member of the Council.
- The member concerned shall be entitled to attend and address such meeting and to be legally represented if he so desires but he and his representatives shall not be present during deliberation by the Council or voting upon the resolution which shall be final and binding upon the sad member.
- The Council may deal with any such member in any of the following ways:
- It is a condition of membership that all members shall hold adequate professional indemnity insurance.
Please direct questions and request for information to:
The Chief Executive
Sarah J H Cowlrick
| Head Office: | Agriculture House |
| Station Road, Liss | |
| Hampshire | |
| GU33 7AR | |
| England | |
| Telephone: | (01730) 895354 |
| Fax: | (01730) 895535 |
| Mobile: | (07831) 388304 |
| Email: | aicc@farmline.com |