#2026-418Rules on supplementary pension and disability-death insurance schemes for liberal professions
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This decree updates how mandatory affiliation works for certain social security schemes covering liberal professions, with detailed rules for notaries. It removes an existing provision of the Social Security Code and adds clearer criteria for when notaries must be affiliated to the relevant complementary pension and disability-death insurance regime. For notaries, the practical point is timing: the decree defines when professional practice starts and ends for individual notaries and notaries working as partners in a notarial company. Events such as taking the oath, resignation, removal from office, liquidation, transfer to another office, dissolution of a company, reaching the age limit, or death can determine the end of affiliation.
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Key Changes
- Repeals Article D. 641-6 of the French Social Security Code.
- Makes affiliation to the relevant regime mandatory for covered notaries, subject to specified conditions.
- Defines the start and end dates of professional practice for individual notaries and notary partners, which affects insurance and pension affiliation.
Obligations
What this law requires
Notaries covered by the amended 1949 decree must be affiliated to the mandatory complementary old-age insurance, disability-death insurance, and complementary old-age benefits regime, subject to the decree’s conditions on the start and end of professional practice.
An individual notary’s affiliation period must be treated as starting on the date the notary takes the oath.
An individual notary’s affiliation period must generally be treated as ending on the date the successor notary takes the oath.
Where an individual notary resigns and the resignation order published in the Journal officiel does not appoint a successor, the notary’s affiliation period must end on the day that resignation order is published.
Where a notarial office is abolished, the individual notary’s affiliation period must end on the publication date of the simultaneous resignation and office-abolition orders, or, if the orders are successive, on the publication date of the first of those orders.