#2026-355Decree on compensation rules for permanent occupational incapacity
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This decree updates French social security and agricultural social insurance rules to use the term “permanent occupational incapacity” more consistently. It also clarifies that one calculation concerns the occupational part of the compensation amount. For employers, insurers, social security bodies, and workers affected by workplace injuries or occupational disease, the decree is mainly a technical alignment. The practical change is timing: the related 2025 social security financing law provisions will apply from 1 November 2026.
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Key Changes
- Adds the word “occupational” to several references to permanent incapacity in the Social Security Code.
- Makes the same terminology update in the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code.
- Sets 1 November 2026 as the effective date for the related compensation framework.
Obligations
What this law requires
From 1 November 2026, social security bodies must apply the amended Social Security Code terminology referring to “permanent occupational incapacity” where the listed provisions previously referred to permanent incapacity.
From 1 November 2026, bodies calculating compensation under Article D. 434-1 of the Social Security Code must treat the relevant amount as the occupational portion of the compensation amount.
From 1 November 2026, agricultural social insurance bodies must apply the amended Rural and Maritime Fishing Code terminology referring to “permanent occupational incapacity” in Article D. 751-76.