Question 21604 — health professions

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Mr. Daniel Labaronne questions the Minister of Agriculture and Food on the situation of exclusive animal osteopaths. The act of animal osteopathy is defined by 12° of article L. 243-3 of the rural and maritime fishing code as: "manipulations having the sole aim of preventing or treating functional disorders of the animal's body, to the exclusion of organic pathologies which require intervention therapeutic, medical, surgical, medicinal or by physical agents. These manipulations are musculoskeletal and myofascial, exclusively manual and external. For the management of these functional disorders, people performing animal osteopathy acts perform non-instrumental, direct and indirect, non-forced manipulation and mobilization acts. According to decree no. 2017-573 of April 19, 2017 “People who have passed an aptitude test consisting of an eligibility test and a practical test accessible after five years of higher studies are deemed to have the skills provided for in 12° of article L. 243-3”, but, according to this same decree “The national council of the order of veterinarians ensures compliance with these conditions. ". This is logical insofar as these tests allow people who do not have not the quality of veterinarian to legally carry out veterinary acts, thus filling the legal void in which animal osteopaths found themselves before this decree. However, in its decision no. 415043 rendered on January 16, 2018, the Council of State affirms "that even though animal osteopathy acts do not all have the character of animal medicine acts, within the meaning of these provisions, the provisions of 12° of Article L. 243-3 of the Rural and Maritime Fisheries Code [], only relate to the performance, by persons who do not meet the conditions provided for to practice the veterinary profession, of acts of animal osteopathy which have the character of acts of animal medicine.” This decree therefore does not take into account exclusive animal osteopaths who carry out acts of animal osteopathy not of the nature animal medicine act. However, exclusive animal osteopaths cannot practice their profession without being registered on the national aptitude register of the Order of Veterinarians under penalty of exposing themselves to legal proceedings, a register on which registration depends on passing the aptitude tests mentioned above. Registration for these tests is expensive, and the waiting period is very long (18 months) and these The latter are difficult even though they are not supposed to concern exclusive animal osteopaths. A year of “waiting” has been proposed, but it is not without cost: 1,500 euros, and therefore not accessible to everyone. He therefore wishes to know if measures are planned to allow exclusive animal osteopaths to exercise their profession completely legally and without going through tests which do not concern their skills.

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