Legal rules for access to public documents

The complete corpus file of @docs, a reference to several hundred specific access provisions, enshrined in French legislation and regulations.

@docs is a tool to explain the right of access to public documents easy to use, designed by the Inter-ministerial Service of Archives de France.

@docs is organised by categories of documents (building permit, medical file, birth certificate...), divided into major themes (taxation, justice, health, etc.) and addresses:

— the user who is not familiar with the archives but who meets the ad hoc need, for an administrative process or personal research, to access a public document.

— administrations which would be confronted with a request for access: public archival services or, for the most recent documents, any public service.

Descriptive of wording:
— General typology: field of activity, type of file or type of information
— Fine typology: division of the field of activity, type of document and/or additional information
— Deadline: position of the document in relation to the period of free communicability determined by the Heritage Code, in relation to a time limit determined by other texts or in the light of other criteria, or lack of time limit (communicability from the creation of the document)
— Identity of the applicant: status of the applicant in relation to the documents requested where the documents are not freely available to any person who so requests
— Consultation:consultation of the document in an administration, a community, a public institution, a public archival service, etc.
— Possibility of obtaining a copy: possibility of obtaining a copy pursuant to Article L. 311-9 of the Code of Relations between the Public and Administration or other legislative or regulatory provisions
— Action: possibility and nature of the appeal in case of refusal of communication and/or copying
— Possibility of using the CADA: possibility of having recourse to the Commission for Access to Administrative Documents pursuant to Articles L. 342-1 and L. 342-2 of the Code of Relations between the Public and the Administration
— Applicable texts: laws and regulations governing access to documents
— Remarks: more information