#2026-493Decree Applying Article L. 37 of the Electoral Code and Updating Electoral Rules
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This decree updates France's electoral rules and the data system used to manage voter lists. It adjusts several Electoral Code references and adds new categories of personal data that can be recorded for election administration purposes. The main practical change is that authorities may now track data on people protected by certain civil court measures and on people who are not registered to vote but have been banned by a court from voting. The decree also sets retention periods for that data, generally until the end of the year after the relevant measure or voting ban ends.
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Key Changes
- Updates Electoral Code provisions linked to Article L. 37 and related voter list rules
- Adds data fields for people covered by certain civil protection measures
- Adds data fields and retention rules for people who are not registered to vote but are banned from voting by a court
Obligations
What this law requires
Electoral list data controllers may include, for beneficiaries of measures ordered under Article 515-11(6° and 6° bis) of the Civil Code, the RNIPP matching identifier, name, usual name and given names, sex, date and place of birth, beneficiary status, measure start date, and measure end date in the electoral data system.
Electoral list data controllers may include, for persons not registered on electoral lists who have been judicially prohibited from voting, the RNIPP matching identifier, name, usual name and given names, sex, date and place of birth, filiation, effective date of the voting-right prohibition, and end date of the prohibition in the electoral data system.
Data relating to measures ordered under Article 515-11(6° and 6° bis) of the Civil Code must be retained only until 31 December of the year following the date on which the measure ends.
Data relating to voting-right prohibitions affecting persons not registered on electoral lists must be retained only until 31 December of the year following the date on which the judicial decision prohibiting voting ceases to apply.