Civil & Administrative

Requests for Name Change

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This law stipulates that individual acts concerning a person’s status and nationality cannot be published in the official Journal of the French Republic in a manner that makes them indexable by search engines. This regulation aims to protect personal data and privacy by ensuring that sensitive information remains confidential. Acts related to status and nationality will be accessible through a secure access platform called Légifrance.

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Key Changes

  • Introduction of measures to prevent indexing by search engines
  • Access to documents will be through a secured site
  • Protection of personal data related to status and nationality

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Do not publish individual acts concerning a person's status and nationality in the Journal officiel de la République française in a manner that makes them indexable by search engines

Journal officiel de la République française (publishing authority)
prohibition
high

Implement technical measures to guarantee that published individual acts related to status and nationality are not indexed by search engines

Journal officiel de la République française (publishing authority)
operational
high

Make individual acts concerning status and nationality accessible exclusively through the Légifrance platform under protected access

Journal officiel de la République française / Légifrance administrators
operational
high

Obtain prior opinion from CNIL before implementing publication conditions for individual acts related to status and nationality

Journal officiel de la République française (publishing authority)
reporting
high

Do not publish individual acts concerning a person's status and nationality in the Journal officiel de la République française in a manner that makes them indexable by search engines

French government agencies responsible for publishing in the Journal officiel
prohibition

Affected Parties

Individuals requesting name changesGovernment agencies handling name change requests

Tags

name change,personal data protection,France