Question 6723 — commerce and crafts

Summary

Mr. Nicolas Ray draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to the lack of structure in the farrier profession. While article L. 243-3 of the rural and maritime fishing code strictly regulates the performance of animal medicine and surgery procedures by persons not qualified as veterinarians and in particular allows farriers to perform them for trimming and equine foot diseases, this profession does not have a professional order that could guarantee the quality of the service provided. However, farriery is an activity used by all stakeholders in the equine industry, essential to the health and well-being of equines and which is exposed to a certain number of risks. The law thus provides that the profession of farrier can only be exercised by a person who has completed recognized scientific and professional training which has resulted in the issuance of a certificate of professional aptitude or professional farrier study certificate. It also punishes the illegal practice of medicine and equine foot surgery with two years' imprisonment and a fine of 30,000 euros. The creation of a professional order would, however, ensure a level of homogeneous qualification throughout the territory, guarantee a level of requirements for entry into the profession, strengthen continuing training, define and enforce a code of ethics, exercise disciplinary power and defend the collective interests of the profession. This structuring of the farrier profession would thus be part of a virtuous dynamic for the agricultural and rural worlds as well as for animal conditions and welfare. This is why he asks what measures the Government intends to take to protect the care of horses' feet and whether the establishment of regulations for the farrier profession in the form of a professional order is possible.

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