Title VI: Professions of hearing aid acoustician, optician, prosthetist and orthotist for the fitting of orthopaedic devices for the disabled

Prosthetists and orthotists make, on medical prescription, the equipment necessary for disabled people. They comprise the following professions: 1° Orthoprosthetists; 2° Podiatrists; 3° Ocularists; 4° Epithesists; 5° Orthopaedic orthotists. Persons may practise one of these professions if, under conditions determined by decree, they can prove that they have completed a training course attested by a State diploma, title or certificate or have professional experience and comply with the rules governing…

Before entering the profession, persons who have obtained the evidence of formal qualifications or authorisation required to practise one of the professions referred to in article L. 4364-1 must register with the service or body designated for this purpose by the Minister for Health. The registration of these persons is carried out after verification of the supporting documents attesting to their identity and their evidence of formal qualifications or authorisation….

The organisations issuing the training qualifications shall transmit these qualifications to the service or organisation mentioned in article L. 4364-2 in the form of certified information. A decree of the Conseil d’Etat shall set out the procedures for implementing the obligation to transmit this information.

Where it is available, the certified information referred to in article L. 4364-3 serves as supporting documents for the fulfilment of the obligations set out in article L. 4364-2.

The competent authority may, after obtaining the opinion of a committee made up, in particular, of professionals, grant individual authorisation to practise one of the professions mentioned in Article L. 4364-1 to nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area who, without holding the diploma provided for in Article L. 4364-1, hold : 1° Evidence of…

A professional practising one of the professions referred to in Article L. 4364-1 who is a national of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and who is established and legally practising the activities of one of the professions referred to in Article L. 4364-1 in a Member State or a State party to the Agreement on…

When a professional practising one of the professions mentioned in Article L. 4364-1 is issued with an authorisation to practise or a declaration to provide a service, he or she must have the language skills required to practise the profession and those relating to the systems of weights and measures used in France. The language proficiency test must be proportionate to the activity to be performed and must be carried…

Persons practising the professions mentioned in 1°, 2° and 5° of article L. 4364-1 may, as part of a renewal, adapt initial medical prescriptions for foot orthoses that are less than three years old, under conditions set by decree and unless the doctor objects.