Key Benefits:
Minister of Agriculture, Agri-Food and Forestry, Government Spokesperson, and Minister of Decentralization and Public Service,
Vu la Act No. 83-634 of 13 July 1983 amendments to the rights and obligations of civil servants, together with Act No. 84-16 of 11 January 1984 amended with statutory provisions relating to the public service of the State;
In view of the amended decision of September 11, 2012, setting out the organizational arrangements and the nature of the tests of the internal competitive examination for senior technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture (recruitment in the rank of senior technician),
Stop:
At the end of the second paragraph of Article 3 of the above-mentioned Order of September 11, 2012, the punctuation: ":" is replaced by: ". "
The third, fourth and fifth paragraphs of the same article are deleted.
In the second sentence of the second paragraph of Article 4 of the same Order, the words: "30 minutes" are replaced by the words: "40 minutes".
The schedule to the same order is replaced by the annex attached to this Order.
The present order will be issued in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
Annex
PROGRAMME OF THE INTERNAL RECRETATION CONCOURS IN THE SECOND GRADE OF THE SUPER TECHNICIANS OF THE MINISTRY CHARGÉ DE L'AGRICULTURE
I.-Veterinary and Food Speciality
Political and administrative organization of France.
Organization of political powers.
Administrative Organization.
Public service.
The Ministry of Agriculture.
The missions of the senior technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Life sciences
1. General biology
Cellular structure and ultrastructure (optical and electronic microscopic):
Biomolecules: molecular structure and classification.
Procaryote.
Animal Eucaryote.
Virus structure: structure and classification by genome type.
Animal histology in mammals:
Striated muscle tissues.
Nervous tissue.
intestinal tissue.
Blood tissue.
Bone tissue.
Cell metabolism:
Cell breathing.
Alcoholic fermentation.
Lactic fermentation.
2. Transmission of genetic information in eucaryotes
Organization of hereditary heritage:
ADN (structure and chemical composition).
Metaphasic chromosome.
Caryotype and ploidy.
Transmission of hereditary equipment:
Cell division mechanisms and genetic consequences (mitose, cloning, meiosis, brewing).
Mendelian genetics (gen, allele, locus, genotype, phenotype, monohybridism and dihybridism, test-cross ...).
3. Animal Physiology
Digestive apparatus and digestion in monogastrics and polygastrics:
Organization and function of digestive compartments and ancillary glands.
Enzymatic digestion, biological digestion, nutrients obtained, absorption.
Respiratory and breathing apparatus.
Circulating apparatus and circulation.
Nervous system and nervous message.
Endocrine strings and hormonal message.
Breeding system and reproduction in mammals:
Organization of male and female reproductive devices.
Hormonal regulation, sexual cycle, gametogenesis, fertilization, lactogenesis.
4. Pathologies and immunology
Structural characteristics of the main pathogens affecting livestock: bacteria, viruses, parasites (tenia, douve, ascaris, trichine, coccidies), prions.
Immunity responses in Mammals:
The inflammatory reaction.
The immune response to humoral mediation.
The immune response to cell mediation.
Principle of vaccination.
Principle of serotherapy.
Zootechnology and animal health
1. Operation of agricultural operations
Diversity of production systems.
Operation of a farm.
Wire of animal products.
Commercialization circuits.
Quality approaches.
Actors of animal industries.
2. Environmental effects and health risks of livestock activities
Origin and control of major pollutants (methane, nitrogen, phosphorus, antibiotics, pest control).
Link between livestock and human health:
Zoonose: routes of contamination, examples of zoonoses.
Traceability of animals and health treatments: regulation of veterinary drugs, identification of animals.
Antibioresistance mechanism.
3. Origin of livestock diseases
The main pathogens (viruses, bacteria, parasites, prions).
Characteristics of pathogens: pathogenic power, virulence, immunogenic power.
Diagnostic methods: symptoms, laboratory tests (serology, virology, coproscopy ...). Sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic tests.
Multifactorial diseases, risk factors, ecopathology.
4. Diseases with collective management
Epidemio-surveillance.
Regulated diseases.
Animal health actors and their roles.
Epidemiology notes.
Food engineering and health and safety
Food industry: organization of agri-food industries, quality policies of a company.
Environmental risks related to product processing activities.
Cleaning and disinfection: principles.
Characterization of raw materials.
Major unitary operations and their place in a process of transformation: remediation treatments (thermal treatments, ionization, desiccation).
Critical analysis of manufacturing diagrams.
Regulatory framework for food safety.
Methods of analysis and risk prevention associated with food risk: HACCP.
Major groups of micro-organisms that may be present in food products.
Dynamics of microbial ecosystems and the impact of microbial populations on the quality and evolution of food products.
Interpretation of analysis results.
Traceability and labelling.
II.-Technical and agricultural economy specificity
Political and administrative organization of France.
Organization of political powers.
Administrative Organization.
Public service.
The Ministry of Agriculture.
The missions of the senior technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Agricultural techniques
1. Plant production
Sales cultures in France:
Recognition of the main species cultivated in large crops (cereals, oilseeds, proteins), viticulture and vegetable and fruit crops.
Main production areas in France.
Uses.
Forage crops in France:
Recognition of major cultivated species.
Main production areas in France.
Methods of use and conservation (grazing, hay, silage, wiring).
Plant production in an agrosystem:
Photosynthesis and primary production.
Limiting factors of plant primary production.
Flow of matter and energy in the agro plant production system.
The technical route of a culture:
Soiling and rotation of crops.
Example of plant culture:
Main cultural interventions, timeliness and justification of interventions. Justification of interventions.
2. Animal production
Animal productions in France:
Recognition of the main species and breeds elevated in cattle, sheep, caprins.
Main production areas in France.
The diets of livestock:
Description and comparison of the digestive apparatus of monogastrics and polygastrics.
Digestion mechanisms in monogastrics and polygastrics.
Recommended spending, needs and nutritional contributions.
The conduct of a herd:
Composition of the livestock with definition of the different categories of animals present.
GBU Notion and loading rate.
Study of an example of cattle herd (food, reproduction, well-being and animal health).
3. Agricultural practices and environment
The impacts of agricultural practices on soil and water:
Negative and positive impacts of agricultural practices on the ground.
Practices to improve soil management.
Negative and positive impacts of agricultural practices on water resources.
Practices to improve water management.
The impacts of agricultural practices on the evolution of landscapes and biodiversity:
Dynamics of landscape evolution.
Importance of transition zones in maintaining biodiversity.
Biodiversity conservation measures.
Current discussions:
Phytosanitary products: risks, precautions of use, alternatives.
Organic agriculture, integrated agriculture: definition, practices, challenges, agronomic and environmental consequences.
GMO: definition, transgenesis, issues, agronomic and environmental consequences, precautionary principle.
Simplified cultural techniques: agronomic and environmental consequences.
Non-food use of plant agricultural products: economic and environmental issues.
Climate change, rising energy cost: impacts on agricultural production and public policies.
Agricultural economy
1. French agriculture and its evolution since 1960
The agricultural population: total and by status, is part of the French population.
Farms: number, size, distribution by legal status and type of production.
Agriculture in the economy: place of French agriculture in the European Union and in the world, trade balance of French agriculture.
2. Government intervention, agricultural policy
The reasons for government intervention.
French agricultural policy since 1960.
Orientation laws.
Agro-environmental measures (MAE), compensation for natural handicaps (ICHN), support for the installation of young farmers.
The common agricultural policy:
The main stages of the CAP of 1962, 1992 and 2003: context and main directions.
Foreseeable evolution of the CAP after 2013.
International negotiations on trade in agricultural products:
The GATT and the WTO.
Definitions.
Operating mode: negotiation cycles.
The main directions.
3. The agricultural enterprise
The operator's central position in the conduct of the operation.
Production factors:
Funcier : carllary, method of asserting (property, fermage).
Buildings.
Materials: traction, soil work, seedlings, spraying, spreading, harvesting, storage.
Main work: UH concept, masters of exploitation, spouses, family aids, employees, mutual assistance, service providers.
The various legal statutes: individual exploitation, GAEC, EARL, SCEA.
4. Industries and markets
The various goods and services produced on a farm: food and non-food agricultural products, intermediate consumption, services.
Different market opportunities: direct sale, agri-food company or a cooperative, under integration contract.
The concept of industry: producer, transformer, distributor, consumer.
Official signs of French quality: red label, AOC, conformity certification, organic farming and their European extensions: AOP, IGP, certificate of specificity, organic farming.
III.-Specific rural forest and territories
Political and administrative organization of France.
Organization of political powers.
Administrative Organization.
Public service.
The Ministry of Agriculture.
The missions of the senior technicians of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Rural territories
1. Water and aquatic environments
Characteristics and operation of aquatic ecosystems:
Biotic and abiotic components, interactions.
Roles, issues, threats.
Water resources in a territory:
Main water resources.
Hydrological assessment of a watershed.
Relations between surface and groundwater.
Consequences of anthropogenic activities on water resources:
Water quality assessment: physicochemical, biological, microbiological and organoleptic parameters.
Adequacy between water resources and water requests based on usage within a territory.
Aquatic ecosystems pollution and wetland degradation.
Public policies in the field of water and aquatic environments:
Water policies: principles, sources, major developments.
Legal Water Management Instruments: Agreed Resource Management Instruments (SDAGE, SAGE, Environmental Contracts, Protection Contracts, MAE), Regulatory Instruments (Directives, Water Laws and Aquatic Environments, Water Police, Capture Perimeters).
Financial instruments: royalties, Water agencies.
2. Policies and actors in rural development
Activities in rural areas:
The European Union, the State, the territorial authorities, intercommunity, the Countries.
Decent government services and other partners.
Governance:
Multidisciplinary approach, territorial context, consultation, planning tools, land development projects, objectives and objectives, actors and pilots, territorial coherence, environmental assessment of projects.
Public policies:
Public policies for the sustainable development of territories, the environment, the management of natural resources, renewable energies.
Tools of public policies for spatial development and/or enhancement:
General regulatory mechanisms, environmental protection laws, rural codes and the environment.
PLU, SCOT, PPR, Regional Guidelines for Forest Management and Development, SRGS, CFT, forest management plans, wooded pasture management plans or ripisylve, massive development plans.
Compensation/catch measures, Natura 2000 network, parks, protection measures, PAC eco-conditioning, agro-environmental measures.
Land protection and control tools
Forests
1. Biology and vegetable physiology
Plant cell:
Cellular organization in optical microscopy and electronic microscopy.
Morphological and anatomical characteristics of plants:
Morphology and anatomy of vegetative organs: roots, stems and leaves.
Morphology and anatomy of reproductive organs:
- Flowers and their different floral pieces,
-The seeds and their reserves,
- Fruit.
Mechanisms for sex reproduction and asexual multiplication of plants:
Asexual reproduction: cell multiplication, differentiation, clone, natural or induced vegetative multiplication, forestry applications, advantages and disadvantages of asexual reproduction.
Gender reproduction mechanisms: development rhythms, flowering, pollination, double fertilization, fructification and seed formation, dissemination, germination, germination conditions, benefits and disadvantages of sex reproduction.
Plant nutrition mechanisms:
Plant water and mineral nutrition: root absorption, sap circulation, evapotranspiration, nitrogen nutrition.
Carbonated nutrition: photosynthesis, become products developed by photosynthesis, gas exchanges.
2. Biodiversity and forest ecology
Biodiversity of forest ecosystems:
Biodiversity: definition, value, uses, importance.
Conservation measures: protection, conservation, reintroduction, strengthening.
Functioning of forest ecosystems:
Space and temporal organization of forest populations: distribution of living beings, variation of resources, limiting factors, autoecology of the main French forest species, ecological niche.
Importance of interactions between living organisms in the functioning and balance of forest ecosystems: food chains, trophic networks, trophic levels, trophic relations, natural population regulation, wildlife management.
Importance of the circulation of matter and energy in the functioning of the forest ecosystem: energy flows, energy efficiency, productivity, recycling of organic matter according to the nature of the population and its mode of operation, biogeochemical cycle of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, soil importance.
Dynamics of forest ecosystems:
Sylvogenetic cycles: successions and series of vegetation, monitoring and improvement of populations, population strategies.
Disturbations and resilience.
Landscape Ecology:
Landscape structure: landscape mosaics, landscape diversity, mapping and diagnosis.
Impacts of human activities: fragmentation of environments, impermeabilisation of territories, artificialization, invasive species.
Importance of transition areas: green and blue trams, corridors, edges, ripisylve. »
Done on September 23, 2014.
Minister of Agriculture, Agri-Food and Forestry, Government Spokesperson,
For the Minister and by delegation:
The Chief Human Resources Officer,
J. Clément
Minister of Decentralization and Public Service,
For the Minister and by delegation:
The chief of duty,
P. Coural
