#2026-401Decree on France’s Digital Citizen Reserve
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The decree sets the management structure for France’s Digital Citizen Reserve, a civic program linked to digital issues and online hate. It names the interministerial delegate responsible for combating racism, antisemitism, and hatred against LGBT people as the authority in charge of managing the reserve. It also makes that delegate responsible for coordinating work across several government bodies, including interior, justice, education, equality, and national security services. For public bodies involved in digital citizenship, anti-discrimination work, online safety, or education, the practical change is clearer central coordination rather than a new compliance burden for businesses.
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Key Changes
- Adds the Digital Citizen Reserve to the scope of the 2017 decree’s citizen reserve framework.
- Names the interministerial anti-racism, antisemitism, and anti-LGBT hate delegate as the management authority for the Digital Citizen Reserve.
- Sets up coordination across relevant ministries and national security services, while excluding certain general rules of the 2017 decree from this reserve.
Obligations
What this law requires
The interministerial delegate for combating racism, antisemitism, and hatred against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons must act as the management authority for the Digital Citizen Reserve.
The interministerial delegate must coordinate the activities of the relevant services of the interior, justice, national education, equality and anti-discrimination ministries, and the General Secretariat for Defence and National Security for Digital Citizen Reserve missions falling within their respective competences.
Articles 2 to 5 of the amended 9 May 2017 decree must not be applied to the Digital Citizen Reserve.