Civil & Administrative

Requests for Name Change (Protected Access)

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

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This law limits the availability and visibility of personal documents and records about name and nationality changes. These documents are not searchable online, making it harder for people to find them. The documents are accessible through a protected platform, ensuring privacy.

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Key Changes

  • Limits the accessibility of documents related to name and nationality changes
  • Prevents these documents from being found through online search engines
  • Ensures they are accessible through a protected platform

Obligations

What this law requires

critical

All individual acts related to name and nationality changes must not be published in the Journal officiel de la République française unless conditions are met to prevent indexing by search engines.

administrative authorities
prohibition
high

Personal documents regarding name and nationality changes must be accessible exclusively through the protected platform on Légifrance.

administrative authoritiesLégifrance
operational
high

Administrative authorities must ensure that individual acts relating to state and nationality are handled in accordance with regulations set forth in Articles L. 221-14, R. 221-15, and R. 221-16 of the Code des relations entre le public et l'administration.

administrative authorities
operational

Affected Parties

Individuals seeking to change their nameGovernment and administrative bodies handling such requests

Tags

name change,data privacy,administration