Name Change Requests Under Protected Access
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Name change notices and similar individual decisions about a person’s civil status or nationality cannot be published in France’s official journal in a way that allows search engines to index them. The practical effect is privacy protection: these records remain accessible on Légifrance, but only through protected access designed to limit broad public search visibility.
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Key Changes
- Bars search-engine indexing for individual acts related to civil status and nationality
- Keeps the records available on Légifrance through protected access
- Applies privacy safeguards based on rules adopted after CNIL consultation
Obligations
What this law requires
Individual acts relating to a person's civil status or nationality may be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic only under conditions ensuring that they are not indexed by search engines.
Covered individual acts relating to civil status or nationality must be made available on Légifrance through protected access rather than through ordinary publicly indexable publication.