FVI aims to coordinate the French offer training and veterinary technical cooperation in the following key areas: 

• fight against animal diseases and epidemiological surveillance;
• food safety, control and monitoring plans;
• animal wellbeing;
• animal identification and traceability;
• controls of veterinary medicines;
• animal feed;
• management of animal by-products;
• border control;
• laboratory diagnostics;
• veterinary training and research;
• support to veterinary authorities;
• organization of the veterinary profession;

and, in general, audit and evaluation for good veterinary governance.
 
The role assigned to FVI is part of the general guidelines of the policy of international cooperation of France and as part of the promotion of the articulated French health model to a dynamic partnership forged between public services and the private sector.