Judicial

#2025-493Decree No. 2025-493 on the Digital Register for Wage Garnishments

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

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🇬🇧 English

This law establishes a digital register for tracking wage garnishments in France, maintained by the National Chamber of Judicial Officers. It outlines the types of data to be collected, the parties authorized to access this data, and sets terms for data retention, access rights, and modification procedures. The law aims to ensure transparency and efficiency in wage garnishment procedures.

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Key Changes

  • Establishment of a digital register for wage garnishments, maintained by the National Chamber of Judicial Officers.
  • Defined data collection parameters and access rights for various judicial actors.
  • Set a maximum retention period for data relating to wage garnishment procedures.

Obligations

What this law requires

high

The National Chamber of Judicial Officers (chambre nationale des commissaires de justice) must maintain and operate the digital register for wage garnishments tracking

National Chamber of Judicial Officers
operational
high

Judicial officers (commissaires de justice) must record suspension events in the digital register without delay

Judicial officers (commissaires de justice)
operational
high

Data must be retained in the active database until wage garnishment procedure is deleted, with a maximum retention period of 10 years

National Chamber of Judicial Officers
operational
high

The distributing judicial officer must verify the validity of wage garnishments when an automatic alert is generated after 10 years and record the absence of deletion or delete the procedure within one month

Distributing judicial officers (commissaires de justice répartiteurs)
operational
high

All create, consult, modify, and delete operations must be logged with identification of the author, date, time, and nature of the operation, with logs retained for 12 months

National Chamber of Judicial Officers and all users of the register
reporting

Affected Parties

Judicial officers involved in wage garnishmentsEmployers and creditors involved in the garnishment process

Tags

wage garnishment,digital register,judicial efficiency