Document type : press release from the FrenchOrdre national des vétérinaires
Preview: The Ordre des vétérinaires is pleased to note that its sustained efforts over the past two years working with French senators, deputies, the Ministry for Agriculture and the Ministry for regional cohesion to support regional veterinary networks have now been rewarded by the approval on Thursday 18 November by the National Assembly of the Loi DDADUE* (various provisions for adaptation to European Union law) which includes major steps forward for the veterinary profession in its article 30. The law now authorises individual and combined local authorities to grant aid to veterinarians contributing to the protection of public health and ensuring the continuity and permanence of care for farmed animals in areas defined as having an absence or insufficiency of veterinary services. These provisions also include veterinary students who would commit to spending five consecutive years in practice in such areas. The areas eligible for aid will be specified by order of the Minister for Agriculture, on the basis of the data provided by the Observatoire National Démographique de la Profession Véterinaire, which is run by the Order (the Observatory publishes an annual demographic atlas of the veterinary profession, which can be downloaded from the Order's website). […]
The Ordre des vétérinaires wishes to commend members of parliament for their recognition of the urgent need to undertake concrete measures to help veterinarians maintain provision of care for farm animals, of which animal welfare is an intangible aspect, in certain rural areas in order to preserve a veterinary network as far as is possible, while also being strongly conscious that this network also depends on the attractiveness of the regions. This recognition the outcome of work begun in 2019 by the professional veterinary organisations which has been pursued with consistency, conviction and teother small companion animalsity by the Ordre des vétérinaires.
