Hmmm... Silence came the reply.
I would be tempted to disregard the alleged restriction on JAA FI ticket, since I can see no reference to it in any of the obvious documentation.
It would create something of a problem for the many overseas schools too.
What is true though, is that for your flight to be conducted under IFR in France, the commander of the flight (presumably your instructor), will need to hold an Instrument Rating, regardless of the weather conditions. As others have indicated, if nobody on board has an IR, then the approach can only be flown under VFR, and therefore in VMC.
This has been known to confuse French ATC at Calais and Le Touquet who have enormous difficulties working out what they are supposed to do when a VFR training flight and a real IFR flight are both holding or flying approaches at the same facility.