Digital Government Factsheet 2019

Percentage of individuals using the internet for interacting with public authorities in France		Percentage of individuals using the internet for obtaining information from public authorities in France
Source: Eurostat Information Society Indicators		Source: Eurostat Information Society Indicators
Percentage of individuals using the internet for downloading official forms from public authorities in France		Percentage of individuals using the internet for sending filled forms to public authorities in France
Source: Eurostat Information Society Indicators	Source: Eurostat Information Society Indicators

The graph below is the result of the latest eGovernment Benchmark report, which monitors the development of eGovernment in Europe, based on specific indicators. These indicators are clustered within four main top-level benchmarks:

User Centricity – indicates to what extent (information about) a service is provided online and how this is perceived.
Transparency – indicates to what extent governments are transparent regarding: i) their own responsibilities and performance, ii) the process of service delivery and iii) personal data involved.
Cross-Border Mobility – indicates to what extent EU citizens and businesses can use online services in another country.
Key Enablers – indicates the extent to which five technical pre-conditions are available online. There are: Identification (eID), Electronic documents (eDocuments), Authoritative Sources, and Digital Post. Digital Post refers to the possibility that governments communicate electronically-only with citizens or entrepreneurs through e.g. personal mailboxes or other digital mail solutions.

These top-level benchmarks are measured using a life-events (e.g. mystery shopping) approach. Eight life events are included in the overall eGovernment performance score. Four of these life events were measured in 2013, 2015 and 2017 and the other four were measured in 2012, 2014, 2016, and again in 2018. The life events measured in 2017 were Regular business operations, Moving, Owning and driving a car and Starting a small claims procedure. The life events measured in 2018 are Business start-up, Losing and finding a job, Family life and Studying.

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Source: eGovernment Benchmark Report 2018 Country Factsheets

Digital Government Highlights

Digital Government Political Communications

On 1 February 2018, the Prime Minister announced the first measures relating to the transformation of public action carried out as part of the Public Action 2022 initiative. Later, on 29 of October, a second Inter-ministerial Committee on Public Transformation was launched. The transformation plan included precise and quantifiable indicators to measure and report on the success of the programme.
In September 2018, the National Plan for inclusive Digital and launch of Digital in common(s) was launched, the first event bringing together all the actors of digital mediation in the nation.
Ma santé 2020 plan (eHealth) and Procédure pénale numérique (eJustice) project were launched in 2018.
One year after the announcement of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, DINSIC and DITP launched a second invitation for expressions of interest from administrations to experiment with artificial intelligence in public services.
On 28-29 May 2019, a conference was organised by the University of Lille on Blockchain, Open Education and Digital Citizenship.
On 16 April 2019, the French government launched Techgouv, the roadmap to accelerate the digital transformation of public services.

Digital Government Legislation

The Personal Data Protection Act was implemented on 20 June 2018.
Implementation of the Law for a State at the Service of a Trusted Society, which allows for experiments in the exchange of information between administrations by API, in August 2018.
Regarding legislations on specific domains, three laws were implemented in 2018, one related to eJustice is Justice Programming and Reform Act 2018-2020, another related to eHealth, draft law on the transformation of the health system, and finally a bill for a school of trust.

Digital Goverment Governance

Bertrand Pailhès was appointed to be the legal successor of the National Coordinator Artificial Intelligence in September 2018.
Appointment of Nadi Bou Hanna as Inter-ministerial Director of Digital and State Information on 24 October 2018 and appointment of Cedric O as Secretary of State for Digital Technology in April 2019.

Digital Government Infrastructure

Digital Government Services for Citizens and Businesses

Since mid-October 2018, the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGFiP) provided public authorities and their users with an enhanced, secure and modern online payment service, PayFiP.

Digital Government Political Communications

Specific political communications on digital government

National strategy for an inclusive digital society

In September 2018, the N ational Plan for Inclusive Digital and launch of Digital in Common(s) was launched, the first event bringing together all the actors of digital mediation. The objective was to train 1.5 million people in digital literacy in order to reduce inequalities and provide equal opportunities for all throughout the country. With 13 million French people who still do not use the Internet, or only to a limited extent, including 6.7 million who never connect to the Internet, this is a real challenge for the Government which is committed to carrying out the digital transformation of the State. This national strategy is based on four main approaches:

Detecting audiences in difficulty with digital technology;
Offer human support in the process;
Train those who wish to do so thanks to the Digital Pass;
Consolidate the players in digital mediation.

Publication of departmental transformation plans

Following the roadmap that the Prime Minister sent to each member of the executive at the beginning of his term of office, each minister has now drawn up a transformation plan, for which he/she is responsible, in order to ensure the implementation of the main reforms. After the time of design and trade-offs, the 2^nd ISCO marked the time to accelerate the implementation of the ministries' roadmaps and their transformation plans. These plans are monitored at the highest level to ensure that the reforms undertaken are translated into concrete results. The ambition is to have a closer, simpler and more efficient state to better meet citizens' expectations.

Departmental digital transformation plans

As part of the Public Action 2022 initiative launched by the Prime Minister in October 2017, the Minister of the Armed Forces defined a roadmap at the end of 2017 setting three objectives for the digital transformation of her ministry:

Ensure operational superiority and information literacy in theatres of operations;
Strengthen the efficiency of support and facilitate the daily lives of staff;
Improve the relationship with the citizen and the attractiveness of the ministry.

This strategic plan, the first of all the ministries to be presented, sets out the actions in a concrete way, as the Minister of the Armed Forces reminded us: “After four months of work, we are now entering the time of action. This plan offers concrete measures to fully achieve our objectives and address the digital transformation”.

On the other hand, the education system is engaged in profound pedagogical and organisational transformations, from nursery school to post-baccalaureate, which require a strong mobilisation of the potential of digital technology. It represents a powerful lever for transformation to support ministerial policy in all its dimensions: pedagogical transformation, with digital technology at the service of learning and its evaluation, training in the challenges and professions of tomorrow, simplification of relations with users, modernisation of the functioning of the State with redesigned information systems.

Today, the National Education Department produces a very large amount of data related to school life, student assessments and results, and the work and homework they do. A wide variety of personal digital data is collected, stored and processed by a multitude of actors (schools and educational establishments, academic services, local authorities, private partners providing educational resources and digital services).

The Ministry of National Education must ensure that the flow, processing and storage of this school data strictly respects the privacy of students and their families, teachers and administrative staff.

ICT in education for the project for a school of trust (Ecole de la Confiance)

The education system is engaged in profound pedagogical and organisational transformations, from nursery school to post-baccalaureate, which require a strong mobilisation of the potential of digital technology. It represents a powerful lever for transformation to support ministerial policy in all its dimensions: pedagogical transformation, with digital technology at the service of learning and its evaluation, training in the challenges and professions of tomorrow, simplification of relations with users, modernization of the functioning of the State with redesigned information systems.

Public Action

The modernisation of the State was reflected in the 2022 public action programme launched in September 2017 by the Prime Minister, Édouard Philippe. It has three objectives: improving the quality of the service provided to the user, improving the working conditions of staff and helping to control the budget path. To achieve these objectives, the Government developed a national strategy for the transformation of public action, published at the second Inter-ministerial Committee on Public Transformation in October 2018. The transformation plans included precise and quantifiable indicators to measure and report on the success of the programme. French citizens will thus be able to monitor the progress of the reforms. The ambition is to have a closer, simpler and more efficient State to better meet citizens' expectations, with transparency in monitoring being a guarantee of the success of reforms.

The national strategy is based on four axes that guide the Government's action:

Public services closer to users;
Simpler and more accessible approaches;
Clearer and more effective public intervention;
A state that transforms itself.

This strategy is implemented in each ministry in ministerial transformation plans that define the modalities for implementing major government reforms (milestones, achievement and impact indicators). The monitoring of the implementation of these reforms is carried out by the Interministerial Directorate for Public Transformation with the offices of the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic and takes the form of high-level follow-up meetings scheduled at regular intervals.

Concerned Development of the Territorial Digital Administration (DCANT)

The Minister of State for the Digital Sector launched the Concerted Development of the Territorial Digital Transformation (DCANT) programme.

This programme aims to become the roadmap for regional digital transformation. It is co-authored by associations of elected representatives and representatives of State services. Its ambition is to build complementary and efficient digital public services.

There are four priorities:

To build a common foundation of applications, digital blocks, repositories and shared frameworks to accelerate digital transformation;
To guarantee shared governance between the State level the local authorities of the digital transformation;
To contribute to a global approach to data in the service of public policies;
To facilitate the scaling up of digital administration.

These actions are to be updated and enriched every six months.

Government Roadmap for the Digital Economy

Following a workshop on the digital economy organised on 28 February 2013, the government presented its Roadmap for the Digital Economy. This strategy revolved around three pillars which are to 'Provide opportunities for youth', 'Reinforce competitiveness', and 'Promote our values in society'.

Provide opportunities for Youth

Four objectives were defined under this pillar:

Using digital tools to rethink education in schools, as to ensure that all students leaving school are familiar with digital tools, have followed courses in information and media, and are aware of the historical, cultural, artistic, economic and social challenges brought about by the information society.
Creating more digitally accessible universities, as to ensure that distance learning programmes and diplomas, can be obtained in all fields where this is possible, and that 20% of educational programmes be available through digital means.
Promoting ICT related jobs, as to increase by at least 3 000 per year the number of graduates which obtain ICT related degrees.
Reinforce awareness raising campaigns.

Reinforce competitiveness

Four objectives have been defined under this pillar:

Encourage the development of global digital companies;
Encourage research and innovation;
Guarantee digital take-up for the entire economy;
Develop 21st century infrastructure.

Promote our values in society

Six objectives have been defined under this pillar:

Encourage the use of digital tools to tackle exclusion;
Protect our sovereignty and establish a trustful environment for citizens;
Define a new digital pact to promote cultural activities;
Modernise public policy through the use of digital tools and resources;
Promote the use of digital means in the health sector;
Respond to cyberspace related challenges.

Launching of digital public service "state start-up" strategy

Produced in an unprecedented construction approach by a small independent team hosted by the Inter-Ministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and State Information and Communication System (DINSIC) and supported by a community of public officials and citizens. It acts as a digital public services incubator.

Inter-ministerial network of the State (RIE)

Simplification and streamlining of the exchange of information between ministries and departmental entities, and optimisation of services for agents and users;
Securitisation of the information system of the State and enhancements in the global IT security as the number of cyber-attacks grows;
Optimisation of the infrastructure to provide unified service catalogues and reduce costs through mutualisation.

Facilitate the exchange of information and data between administrations to simplify procedures

Following the law of 10 August 2018 for a State in the Service of a Company of Trust, a decree published in the Official Journal of 20 January 2019 supplements the principle of "Tell us once" where a user of the administration (individual or company) carrying out an action will no longer be obliged to provide certain information or supporting documents (e.g. reference tax income, proof of identity) as soon as these elements are already held by the administration's services.

Key enablers

Access to public information

Cloud strategy

On 3 July 2018, the French Government announced its cloud strategy. To support the digital transformation of the State, the Government adopted a strategy for the use of cloud computing by the administration. The objective of the strategy was to develop the use of the cloud by administrations, public institutions and local authorities within 3 years.

This allowed each administration to choose the solution that best suits its needs.

To promote a level playing field between cloud offers and traditional IT, regulatory adaptations will be made, particularly for asset code, in order to be able to use secure cloud offers with hosting outside the national territory.

eID and Trust Services

Implementation of secure digital identity solutions: launch of a program

The deployment of the digital identification system, a new public service, enables everyone, whether citizens, residents or legal entities, to prove their identity in a secure, ergonomic and accessible way, both during data exchanges related to administrative procedures and for more extensive uses such as commercial transactions on the Internet.

Security aspects related to digital government

Information campaign to carry out administrative procedures in complete safety

The objective of this national campaign is to give the French the ability to carry out administrative procedures in complete safety. Fake administrative sites offer to carry out certain common administrative procedures for a fee (e.g. request for birth certificate, criminal record, change of address, registration on the electoral rolls), while they are offered free of charge on the official websites of the administration accessible from the website www.service-public.fr.

For those who are cheated citizens, this is not only a financial problem but an intrusion into their private lives, because the use of these sites leads to access to sensitive personal data.

Interconnection of base registries

No political communication was adopted in this field to date.

eProcurement

European Single Procurement Document (ESPD)

Domain-specific political communications

Ma Santé 2020 strategy

Announced in September 2018 by the President of the Republic, the Ma santé 2022 strategy provides an overall vision and global responses to the challenges facing the French health system. First of all, inequalities in access to healthcare, with more and more French people experiencing difficulties in accessing a doctor during the day and sometimes being forced to go to the emergency room by default. Secondly, the aspirations of professionals to cooperate better with each other, to have more time to care for their patients and to be trained in other ways.

Plan Digital criminal procedure

On 10 January 2018, a joint high-level team was set up to conduct a major project for the digital transformation of the criminal justice system on a full-time basis. As part of a determined drive to modernise, improve the quality of service provided to our fellow citizens, and generally simplify working methods, this joint team, officially launched yesterday, will have to develop concrete solutions in order to achieve a fully dematerialised criminal chain, resulting in particular in the possibility for all actors in criminal proceedings to access a single file online. It will thus endeavour to create the conditions for digitised exchanges between the investigation services and the judicial authority.

This team is made up of about twenty very experienced practitioners, police officers, gendarmes, magistrates and registry officers.

Fully in line with the Justice projects, in the forefront of which is the digital transformation and simplification of criminal procedure, this team, after having collected precisely the operational needs, will propose in particular the development and experimentation plan for the future computer system supporting digital criminal procedure.

Interoperability

Phasing out of administrative documents

API Particular is heir to the principle of Tell Us Once. It is a question of not having to provide administrative documents to the administration.

API Particular has a certified source for the data. Moving forward, there is no need to check them; those that come directly from taxes, for example.

Six months after its launch, demarches-simplifiees.fr

Since 1 March 2019 it is now possible to make an online query, in record time and free of charge, thanks to demarches-simplifiees.fr. This dematerialisation platform offers administrations a turnkey service to digitise administrative procedures and as a result free themselves from paper forms.

Emerging technologies

Artificial intelligence – Projets lauréats de l’appel à manifestation d’intérêt (AMI)

On 21 November 2018, Secretary of State for Digital Affairs Mounir Mahjoubi announced, the winning projects of the call for expressions of interest (CEI) launched six months earlier

Testifying to a significant mobilisation, 52 projects had been submitted by various administrations: central and decentralised, operators, public institutions, rectors, universities, courts of law, hospitals. Of these, six were selected by a jury of experts.

Over a period of 10 months, these six projects will be developed and tested within the public services, with the help of teams from the Interministerial Directorate for Digital Technology and the State Information and Communication System (DINSIC) and the Interministerial Directorate for Public Transformation (DITP).

The National Research Strategy for Artificial Intelligence

to make France one of the top five AI expert countries in the world on a sustainable basis;
to make France the European leader in AI research.

One year after the announcement of the national artificial intelligence strategy, DINSIC and DITP are launching a second invitation for expressions of interest from administrations to experiment with artificial intelligence in public services. Interested parties could send in their proposals with a deadline of 31 May 2019.

Digital Government Legislation

Specific legislation on digital government

Law for a State in the Service of a Trusted Society

This law was promulgated on 10 August 2018. It established the principle of the droit à l’erreur (right to error) and included a series of measures to simplify administrative formalities. A user who makes a mistake in declarations to the administration will not incur any penalty for the first error so long as it was made in good faith. It will be up to the administration to demonstrate the user's bad faith.

The second part of the law gathers measures to simplify administrative formalities. To facilitate the users' journey, an experiment will set up a single referent who will be responsible for having the users' requests processed by the administrations concerned.

The Digital Bill

The law for a digital republic was promulgated on 7 October 2016. It prepared the country for the challenges of the digital transition and the economy of tomorrow. It promoted innovation and the development of the digital economy, an open digital society that is reliable and protected the rights of citizens. It also aimed to ensure access for all, in all territories, to all opportunities related to digital.

For the first time, the document was jointly prepared with Internet users before being submitted for review. The contributions were incorporated into the Digital Bill.

The Bill’s Decrees established the following principles:

Net neutrality: the French Authority for Regulation of the Electronic Communications and Postal sectors (ARCEP) will be responsible for ensuring that operators will not discriminate in providing access to the network on the basis of services;
Data portability: email providers are required to allow the migration of user's emails as well as their contact lists when they decide to change service provider;
Right to maintain the connection: households experiencing payment difficulties may receive financial assistance from a universal solidarity fund. Their connection shall be maintained by their access provider while their assistance request is under examination;
Confidentiality of private correspondence: emails are considered as confidential as physical letters, and may not be analysed by email services, except to detect spam and viruses.;
Right to be forgotten for minors: persons who were minors at the time their personal data was collected in connection with information society services are entitled to have their personal data erased by the data controller. If the data is not erased or the controller has not responded within a month, it is possible to refer to the CNIL which shall give a ruling within 15 days;
Better inform consumers of online reviews: online review sites must indicate whether their publication has been verified. Consumers can thus assess the degree of credibility of the reviews available online;
Openness of public data: public bodies such as social landlords must publish their databases online. In addition, public authorities will be required to guarantee the quality and updating of "reference data" such as the national address database: this will facilitate the work of local public services such as fire brigades and emergency services;
Improved accessibility: all public administration websites have to specify their level of compliance with accessibility regulations, failing which financial penalties will be applied. Large companies must also offer after-sales telephone services that are accessible to the hearing impaired;
Digital death: the right for all to express their wishes and ensure they are respected with regard to what happens after their death to their personal information published online.

Ordinance on the right of users to communicate with administrative via electronic means/Ordinance on the simplification of the relation between the administrations and the user

The ordinance No. 2014 - 1330 was adopted on 6 November 2014 by the French government. The former Secretary of state for Public accounts and State reform, Thierry Mandon, announced, at the Council of Ministers, forty measures to be adopted by the government in order to simplify the lives of citizens. These measures are the result of public consultation between 9 July and 15 September 2014, during which more than 2000 proposals were made by users. The ordinance effectively defined the conditions and procedures for exercising the right of users to communicate electronically with the different administrations. It remained aligned with the ordinance No. 2013 - 1005 adopted on 12 November 2013, that allowed for the simplification of the relation between the administration and users.

Thierry Mandon presented a list of these 40 measures, many of which represented a great step forward for users as they enabled services such as scheduling an appointment at the CAF (Caisse d'allocations familiales) online or applying for the Vitale card online, getting a personal medical certificate, payments of fines via smartphone or purchasing stamps online and several other eServices.

All matters relevant to the relationship between users and administration (central administration, regional governments and private legal entities having a public service mandate) are now gathered in one single code Code des relations entre le public et l'administration which came into force on 1 January 2016.

The code deals with such matters as the digital exchange and referral modalities of the administration, the obligation for administration to provide e-services to citizens (e-procedures, e-forms...), the obligation for the administration to acknowledge receipt of digital referrals. It also contains the exchange of information between administration (once-only) rules. Book III of the code deals with the access to administrative documents and re-use of public information. It includes all the new measures implemented by the Digital Republic and published on 27 October 2016.

Ordinance on electronic interactions between public services users and public authorities and among public authorities

This ordinance (teleservices ordinance) was adopted on 8 December 2005 on the basis of the Legal Simplification Law of 9 December 2004. It was designed to establish a comprehensive legal framework for the shift to ‘electronic administration’ creating simple and secure electronic interactions between citizens and public authorities. The text covered all exchanges of electronic documents, email or digital communications among public authorities and among citizens and central administration, regional governments and private organisations. Moreover, it granted the same legal status to email as that of traditional paper-based correspondence and legalised the use of electronic signatures by public authorities. Lastly, the text stipulated the provisions on both the security of exchanges and the interoperability of information systems.

Key enablers

Access to public information

Law relative to the modalities of the reuse of information of the public sector

The purpose of the law is to promote the reuse of public data. The text lays down the principle of free access for the opening and reuse of public data, known as ‘open data’. This principle applies to the state and local authorities. The text limits the exceptions to the principle of free access, on the one hand, to the public authorities required to release their resources, and on the other hand, to the digitisation of cultural funds.

Law on access to administrative documents

The Law of 17 July 1978 on access to administrative documents grants access to all, to administrative documents held by public bodies. All documents handed over are subject to copyright rules and cannot be reproduced for commercial purposes. Public bodies must respond to requests for documents within one month. A Commission of Access to Administrative Documents (CADA) is tasked with supervision. A complaint must be decided upon by the CADA before it can be appealed to an administrative court.

Update of Article 47 of the Disability Act of 2005

In September 2018, Article 47 of the Disability Act of 2005 was updated by Article 80 of the Act for a Professional Future to transpose into French law the European Directive on digital accessibility of websites and mobile applications in the public sector.

eID and Trust Services

Law for a State in the service of a trusted society (trust law)

In January 2019, two decrees finalised the implementation of the Tell Us Once principle of the Trust law. The purpose of this law was to simplify the administrative formalities of the French. The law includes 2 pillars: trust and simplicity and is aimed at all users - individuals or companies - in their daily dealings with administrations.

Published on 20 January 2018 in the Official Journal, the decree "on the exchange of information and data between administrations" supplemented the principle of "Tell us once", one of the pillars of this law, which enshrined a major change in relations between users and administrations: from now on, a user - individual or company - undertaking an administrative procedure will no longer be required to provide certain information or supporting documents (reference tax income, proof of identity, certificate of rights issued by social security organisations) already held by the administration.

Law on electronic communications and audiovisual communication services

Adopted on 9 July 2004 and amended on 8 August 2008, this law implemented the EU regulatory framework for electronic communications, namely: Directive 2002/21/EC (Framework Directive); 2002/20/EC (Authorisation Directive); 2002/19/EC (Access Directive); 2002/22/EC (Universal Service Directive); and 2002/58/EC (Directive on privacy and electronic communications). Transposition was subsequently completed with the adoption of several decrees.

Law on electronic signature

The Law of 13 March 2000 was the first to grant legal value to electronic signatures and electronically-signed documents, and further implemented the EU Directive 1999/93/EC on a Community framework for electronic signatures. This law was complemented by an application decree issued on 30 March 2001. This was itself abrogated by a new decree on 28 September 2017, following the adoption on 23 July 2014 of EU Regulation n°910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market (repealing EU Directive 1999/93/EC).

Law for trust in digital economy

Adopted on 21 June 2004, the law for trust in the digital economy implemented the EU Directive on electronic commerce (2000/31/EC) and sets the legal framework for the development of eCommerce services in France. The law was amended on 12 December 2018.

Security aspects related to digital government

Law No 2018-133 of 26 February 2018 on various provisions for adapting to European Union law in the field of security

On 26 of February 2018, the law on various provisions for adapting to European Union law in the field of security was implemented in France. The published law contains a series of provisions to transpose Directive 2016/1148 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2016 on measures to ensure a common high level of network and information system security in the Union.

Personal Data Protection Act

The Personal Data Protection Act was promulgated on 20 June 2018. It adapted the Informatique et libertés law of 6 January 1978 to the European data protection package. This package included the General Data Protection Regulation (DGPS), a Regulation of 27 April 2016 directly applicable in all European countries as of 25 May 2018 and a Directive dated the same day on criminal records, the so-called Police Directive.

Law on ‘Informatics and Liberty' (2004)

The Law on Informatics and Liberty was adopted on 6 January 1978. The Law provided a legal framework for the use of identifiers in databases and the processing of personal data by public and private sector organisations. The Law created a National Commission for Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), which is in charge of overseeing its implementation and observance. The CNIL had an advisory role in the planning of administrative data systems. The Law on Informatics and Liberty was amended by law no. 2004-801 of 6 August 2004 implementing the EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC).

Interconnection of base registries

Transport Code

The Transport Code set out the necessary information and procedures required to register a vehicle. Since February 2016, all registrations in the Vehicle Registry must be done through the new online Vehicle portal (VTC).

Commercial Code

The Commercial Code is the main Company Law in France. This law stipulates the most important requirements and rules for a company’s organisation and structure. The Company Law in France also refers to some rules in the Civil Code, Monetary and Financial Code. As far as company registration in France is concerned, the Act of 19 December 2002 mention the obligations of all companies set up in France to the Registry with the French Registry of Commerce and Companies (Registre de commerce et des sociétés).

Tell-Us-Once Principle

The Tell-Us-Once principle was implemented along with a wide range of base registry initiatives introduced through a number of strategies and respective initiatives. The Dites-le-nous une fois (Tell us once) is an inter-ministerial program launched at the Inter-ministerial Government Modernisation Council in 2012 which was designed to simplify and reduce the administrative burden on businesses by 2017. The point was to reduce the amount of redundant information that businesses are asked to provide by 50%. The digital tool enabled the pre-filling and digitisation of administrative forms that businesses were required to complete, in particular, to enable the exchange of information between the different departments and agencies. Since 2014, there have been two projects running within the inter-ministerial program.

Public administrations can access this information through APIs (Apientreprisesl) that provide information from different base registries. The base registries that available through APIs are:

INSEE (Administrative information / contact details and identity);
Infogreffe (Legal information / legal status);
DGFiP (fiscal information / taxation / turnover);
ACOSS (social situation / social security contributions);
Caisses retraites (pension funds).

eProcurement

Ordinance n° 2015-899 on public procurement

Adopted on 23 July 2015, the ordinance articulated new public procurement rules. The key points included the following:

Scope: all contracting authorities currently subject to the Public Procurement Code are now subject to common legal principles, which the regulatory power will specify.
Subcontracting: subcontracting may be limited by the contracting authority;
European protectionism: Buyers may provide for criteria or restrictions based on the origin of the products or the nationality of the candidates, if they come from countries where there is no reciprocity of the main European principles of public procurement (a sort of protectionist clause);
Allotment: remains mandatory;
Order group and central purchasing: contracting authorities from other European countries may join French control groups, and French buyers may resort to central purchasing offices located in other European countries;
Prohibition to bid: a contracting authority may automatically reject an offer from an undertaking which has not been successful in a previous contract;
Partnership markets: a prior assessment of the value of this contractual arrangement in relation to conventional public procurement must be demonstrated by the buyer.

Public Procurement Code

The latest version of the French public procurement code was adopted on 1 August 2006. It transposed the EU Directives on public procurement (2004/17/EC and 2004/18/EC), including their eProcurement provisions relating to eAuctions and Dynamic Purchasing System. The code in question provided for a wider use of a dematerialised public procurement to enhance the efficiency of procedures (shortened delays for reception of applications and tenders, electronic access to consultation/information documents, authorised sending of backup copies during the transmission of applications). The new public procurement code stated that as from 1 January 2010, French contracting authorities had the right to require the transmission of applications and tenders in electronic format only. The second part of the code fully transposed specific provisions of Directive 2004/17/EC that are applicable to network operators.

eInvoicing Legislation

Established by Ordinance n°2014-697 of 26 June 2014 on the development of electronic invoicing. It stipulated that economic operators involved in public procurement should submit eInvoices, which have to be accepted by all public administrations. The mandatory submission of eInvoices started, on a gradual basis, from January 2017. According to the ordinance, the date of enforcement of the law for the suppliers varies according to the company size. B2G invoicing will be mandatory by the end of 2020.

Domain-specific legislation

The Digital Bill

The Law on a digital republic has created new rights for people.

The assertion of the principle of control by the individual of his data;
The right to be forgotten for minors: If at the time of data collection, the person was a minor, he/she can obtain the deletion of the problematic data as soon as possible;
The ability to organise what happens to one’s personal data after death;
The opportunity to exercise one’s rights electronically.

The Bill also has more information on the shelf life of people’s data. Data processors must now inform people of the length of time the processes data is kept, or, if this is not possible, the criteria used to determine this duration.

Law on Programming and Reform for Justice

The Law on Programming 2018-2022 and Reform for Justice was promulgated on 23 March 2019. The law provided for a 24% increase in the budget of the Ministry of Justice for the period 2018-2022. 6 500 jobs are to be created and EUR 530 million was spent on the ministry's digital transformation. The text is structured around six areas: simplification of civil procedure, reduction of the burden of administrative courts and reinforcement of the efficiency of administrative justice, simplification and reinforcement of the efficiency of criminal procedure, efficiency and sense of punishment, diversification of the way in which juvenile offenders are dealt with and reinforcement of the efficiency of the judicial system, adaptation of the functioning of the courts.

Draft law on the organisation and transformation of the health care

The bill on the organisation and transformation of the health system was adopted at first reading, with amendments, by the National Assembly on 26 March 2019. The bill implemented measures presented by the President of the Republic in his speech of 18 September 2018 on the "My Health 2022" plan.

In the bill, the government stated that the role of innovation and digital technology in the French health system is very important. The law advocated the digital transformation of the health system and caregiver practices.

Article 12 allowed each user to open their digital health space by 1 January 2022 in order to access their shared medical file, as well as digital tools for secure exchanges with health professionals and institutions. This aimed to promote prevention by providing access to referenced and personalised health information, simplifying the preparation of hospitalisation and the return home, or even making it possible to evaluate one's care journey. The article provided that the user may decide at any time to close his digital health space and specifies the conditions for destroying the data contained therein.

Interoperability

Decree on the Unified Command and Information System for Fire and Rescue Services and Civil Protection NexSIS 18-112

The Decree on the Unified Command and Information System for Fire and Rescue Services and Civil Protection was implemented in January 2019. This decree provided for the establishment of a unified information and command system for fire and rescue and civil security services, called NexSIS 18-112, in order to provide the population with a quality service for processing alerts received through emergency call numbers 18 and 112 and for the operational management of emergency resources, a national capacity to manage civil security and crisis management activities, interoperability with the information systems of public and private bodies contributing to civil security, in particular those of public security and health services, as well as functionalities to ensure the exchange, sharing and storage of data in accordance with confidentiality and security rules. The implementation and management of this information system fell within the scope of the missions of general interest entrusted to the Agence du numérique de la sécurité civile.

Emerging technologies

Draft law on the growth and transformation of enterprises

On 18 June 2018, the Minister of Economy and Finance introduced a new draft law on business growth and transformation. This bill complemented regulatory and non-regulatory measures as well as tax measures that are incorporated into the 2019 finance bill. All these measures made up the Action Plan for the Growth and Transformation of Enterprises (PACTE). The PACT was a new step in the country's economic transformation. It was the fourth phase of the economic reforms initiated by the Government more than a year ago. It was in line with ordinances for strengthening social dialogue and the tax reform initiated by the 2018 Finance Act. It acted in parallel with the draft law on the freedom to choose one's professional future in order to give small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) the means to create jobs. The PACTE was the result of a co-construction process initiated with companies, parliamentarians and local authorities in October 2017. Following this first phase of consultation, companies, individuals and professional federations were able to express their views in early 2018, during an online public consultation that gathered several thousand contributions and counted 65 000 votes. The PACT had two objectives: to make companies grow so that they create more jobs and to redefine the place of the company in society in order to better involve employees.

Digital Government Governance

National

Policy

Secretary of State for Reform and Simplification of the State

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Édouard Philippe

Prime Minister

Contact details:

Hôtel Matignon

57, rue de Varenne

75700 Paris SP 07

Tel.: +33 1 42 75 80 00

E-mail: N/A

Source: http://www.gouvernement.fr

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Cédric O

Secretary of State for Digital Technology

Contact details:

139 rue de Bercy
75012 Paris

Tel.: 01 40 04 04 04

E-mail: N/A

Source: http://www.gouvernement.fr

Interministerial Directorate of Public Transformation (DITP)

Formerly known as General Secretary for the Modernisation of Public Administration (SGMAP) from 2012 to 2017. It was transformed into two new Inter-ministerial Directorates with Decree n° 2017-1584 of 20 November 2017.

The Inter-Ministerial Directorate of Public Transformation (DITP), under the authority of the Minister of State Reform and led by the inter-ministerial delegate for public transformation.
The Inter-Ministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and State Information and Communication System (DINSIC), placed, by the delegation of the Prime Minister, under the authority of the Minister in charge of the digital.

The Inter-Ministerial Directorate of Public Transformation (DITP) supports ministries and administrations in the conduct of public transformation of the State. The DITP coordinates the Public Action 2022 programme and leads innovative interdepartmental projects. Furthermore, it includes:

The service “acceleration of transformations”;
The department’s “innovative methods, behavioural sciences and listening to users”; “public service performance, managerial transformation and digital transformation”; and “piloting the public policy transformation agenda”;
The communication and support missions.

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Interministerial Delegate for Public

Transformation

Contact details:

Direction Interministérielle de la Transformation Publique (DITP)

20, avenue de Ségur

75007 Paris

Tel.: +33 1 53 18 76 25

E-mail: sec.sgmap@modernisation.gouv.fr

Source: http://www.modernisation.gouv.fr

Coordination

Inter-ministerial Directorate of Public Transformation (DITP)

The Interministerial Directorate of Public Transformation (DITP) coordinates the Public Action 2022 programme in collaboration with the ministries. Driven by a new vision for the transformation of public action, it supports inter-ministerial projects or accompanies ministerial projects with a high impact.

As an accelerator of public transformation, it provides its expertise so that administrations and their agents become entrepreneurs in their transformation. Putting the user at the centre, unleashing the capacity for action and creativity of managers and agents, keeping things simple, being transparent about results and trusting are his commitments.

It helps administrations to imagine new solutions, to move beyond the framework, to unleash public energy, to transform public action and to build a more efficient, fairer public service, better adapted to users' needs.

Implementation

Inter-Ministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and State Information and Communication System

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Nadi Bou Hanna

Interdepartmental director of digital and state information systems

Contact details:

20 avenue de Ségur
75007 Paris

Tel.: +33 1 40 15 72 60

E-mail: dinsic-sec.sgmap@modernisation.gouv.fr

Source: https://lannuaire.service-public.fr/gouvernement/administration-centrale-ou-ministere_194230

All Central Government departments

Central Government departments deal with the implementation of eGovernment projects placed within their respective jurisdiction.

Support

National Digital Council (CNNum)

The National Digital Council (Conseil National du Numérique – CNNum) is an advisory body created on 27 April 2011 by the president. It consists of eighteen Internet specialists tasked with advising the Government on issues related to digital technology. More specifically, the CNNum is consulted for advice on "any proposed law or regulation that may have an impact on the digital economy, so the government can have insight from the industry". Nevertheless, the CNNum will also issue recommendations on issues of interest without a previous request by the Government.

The DILA, direction de l’information légale et administrative

The Government’s publishing house, the DILA provides information management services.

The DILA is a directorate from the central administration of the Prime Minister. It came about as result of the merger of the directorates of French Documentation and of the official journals and is today iplaced under the authority of the General Secretariat of the Government. DILA performs tasks of legal dissemination, public edition and administrative information. DILA is also responsible for the maintenance of the official website of the French Public Administration, service-public.fr.

Public Interest Grouping ‘Modernisation of Social Declarations’ (GIP-MDS)

The GIP-MDS gathers the different social security institutions and business federations in the aim to develop joint services enabling businesses to file their social declarations electronically. These services are accessible through the Net-Entreprises website.

Base registry coordination

Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice takes care of the Civil Registry which handles personal data for natural and legal persons.

Ministry of Environment, Energy, and Sea

The Ministry of Environment, Energy, and Sea provides for the vehicle registry which deal with vehicles data.

National Institute of Intellectual Property

The Business registry belongs to the National Institute of Intellectual Property which deals with business data.

Ministry of Economics and Finance

The land and tax registries belong to the Ministry of Economics and Finance which handles land, parcels and tax data.

Audit

Court of Accounts

The responsibilities of the French Court of Accounts cover mandatory and optional examinations of the use of public funds.

Finance Committees of the Parliament

Use of public funds is also scrutinised by the Finance Committees of both the National Assembly and the Senate.

Data Protection

National Commission for Informatics and Liberty (CNIL)

The CNIL, the French Data Protection Authority, was created by the ‘Informatics and Liberty’ Law of 6 January 1978 which provides a legal framework for the use of identifiers in databases and the processing of personal data by public and private sector organisations. The CNIL is in charge of overseeing the implementation of this law and also has an advisory role in the planning of administrative data systems.

French Network and Information Security Agency (ANSSI)

A decree issued on 8 July 2009 established the French Network and Information Security Agency (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information - ANSSI). This agency was placed under the authority of the Prime Minister and was attached to the Secretary General for Defence and National Security. It also replaced the Central Directorate for Information System Security (DCSSI) and was assigned wider missions and resources. Its core missions are: detection and prompt reaction to cyber-attacks; continuous surveillance of sensitive Governmental networks; implementation of the appropriate defence mechanisms; prevention of threats through trusted products and services by French operators; advise and support to Governmental entities and operators of Critical Infrastructure; and continuous information on security threats.

French Computer Security Incident Report Team (CERT-FR)

Subnational (federal, regional and local)

Policy

Regional and Local Administrations

Regional and Local Government bodies (regions, counties and municipalities) devise their respective eGovernment policy in compliance with the national eGovernment policy, within the limits of their respective competences.

Coordination

Concerted Development of the Territorial Digital Transformation (DCANT) programme.

This programme aims to become the roadmap for regional digital transformation. It is co-authored by associations of elected representatives and representatives of State services, its ambition is to build complementary and efficient digital public services.

Regional agencies for ICT

In some regions, dedicated agencies for ICT participate in the coordination of regional eGovernment projects.

Implementation

Regional and Local Administrations

Regional and local government bodies implement eGovernment projects falling within their respective areas of competence.

Support

Caisse des Dépôts

The National Centre for the Management of Territorial Service (CNFPT)

The National Centre for the Management of Territorial Service (Centre National de la Fonction Publique Territoriale - CNFPT) is at the heart of decentralisation. Through its core missions of agent training and career support of executives, the CNFPT aims to modernise the local public service.

CAP-TIC

CAP-TIC is a company created in February 2000 by the Caisse des Dépôts, which provides technical, economic, pedagogical and legal services to public sector organisations.

Internet Cities Association

The Internet Cities (Villes Internet) Association is a network of elected officials, local civil servants, and private and voluntary stakeholders, aimed at supporting the exchange of experiences and practice for the development of the Internet and of Internet-based citizen services at local level.

The Association of Internet Cities, which meets once a year, is the national label given to local governments implementing local digital public policy. Since 2015, the label for the promotion of Internet Citizen is directed at Internet Territories, Cities and Villages.

It offers a geolocation mapping portal that lists and presents the services offered by local actors in connection with the ‘internet citizen’ www.atlaas.fr

Base registry coordination

No responsible organisations were reported to date.

Audit

Regional Courts of Accounts

The Regional Courts Internet Cities of Accounts are tasked with examining the use of public funds by public authorities.

Data Protection

The National Commission on Information Technology and Liberties (CNIL)

The Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) is an independent French administrative regulatory body whose mission is to ensure that data privacy law is applied to the collection, storage, and use of personal data.

Digital Government Infrastructure

Portals

Continuous enhancement of the API catalogue

The api.gouv.fr portal was officially opened since 21 June 2016. The API store developed by the Interministerial Directorate for Digital and the State Information and Communication System. It presents the programming interfaces (APIs) made available to developers and based on data from public administrations or companies under contract with the State. This website aims to reference the exhaustive list of APIs (in English, application programming interface) provided by all French public services and to facilitate their use by developers.

Government as a Platform

ePassports

Common eSignature solution

The electronic services provided online to citizens and enterprises via the portal www.service-public.fr are supported by one common electronic signature solution. Thus, only the electronic certificates provided by ‘qualified’ Certification Service Providers (CSPs) are eligible for the online interactions of citizens and businesses with the Government. To become recognised as such, the certificates are evaluated against the requirements of the ‘General Security Framework’. There are three levels of security, medium, high and qualified. The electronic certificates for businesses are issued to natural entities, but there are only to be used on behalf of an enterprise.

Mesdroitssociaux.fr

Mesdroitssociaux.gouv.fr offers a new digital service that centralises information about insured persons and facilitates the procedures to be undertaken with the social protection bodies that provide service:

Mesdroitssociaux.gouv.fr is aimed at all social security contributors (whether they are employees, self-employed, retired or unemployed);
The portal offers a centralised entry point with personalised personal information;
It provides a new channel of communication between social protection bodies and insured persons, complementary to the insured accounts.

Api.gouv.fr

Developed by the Interministerial Directorate of Digital and the State Information and Communication System (Dinsic), the api.gouv.fr portal was officially launched on 21 June, 2019. It presents the programming interfaces (APIs) made available to developers and based on data from public administrations or companies under contract with the State.

Service-Public.fr

This portal, launched in October 2000, Service-Public.fr, is the access point to practical information focused on the daily-life events of public service users. It provides orientation, documentation, online forms and links to public services online.

As of January 2008, two-thirds of administrative procedures (approx. 600) were fully available online. In February 2008, the portal was enriched with the website ‘Administration 24h/24’, a one-stop shop for both citizens and businesses to perform administrative formalities online. Mes démarches 24h/24 the resulting section of the eGovernment portal features a search engine that leads to the most complete information relating to the keyword entered.

A specific section of the portal is aimed at simplifying administrative procedures for businesses, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and freelancers. The services provided are supported by one common electronic signature solution and allow for the electronic access to administrative forms, as well as their eFilling in and online return.

Launched in April 2014, the Simplified Public Procurement (MPS) is now implemented. It allows companies to respond to call for tenders for public contracts by providing only their Siret number and a certificate of honour instead of supporting documents. Similarly, since 2015, the Simplified State Aid (APS) following the same principle, is widespread. Both are part of the Dites-le-nous une fois (Once-only principle) programme, aiming at easing the administrative burden on companies by reducing the volume of data required in their exchange with French public services.

On 18 October 2018, Service-public.fr celebrates its 18^th anniversary. News about public services are published in the News/e-administration section of service-public.fr.

Data.gouv.fr

Data.gouv.fr is an open data portal maintained by the French government. The portal hosts datasets produced by corporations, citizens or non-profits as well as government data. Data.gouv.fr also lists datasets released by institutions which have already developed their own open data portals by redirecting users to these portals.

Mes aides.fr

Mes-aides is a digital public service state startup produced in an unprecedented construction approach by a small independent team and supported by a community of public officials and citizens. The site mes-aides makes use of the free software simulation of the French tax-benefit system OpenFisca.

Demarches-simplifiees.fr

Launched on 1 March 2018, the portal démarches simplifiées aims to simplify all public services, by allowing public administrations to create their own online forms. There are 223 administrative partners, and almost 15 000 files have been added in less than a month. With its collaborative functionalities and an integrated messaging system developed on the model of social networks, administrations will easily be able to request additional documents from citizens.

Beta.gouv.fr

As a mission of the DINSIC (Inter-ministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and State Information and Communication System), the beta.gouv.fr website is a digital services incubator. It is considered as a state startup, which has 4 phases:

A public official investigates an obstacle between administration and citizens;
Two to four people build a digital product in less than six months;
The team consolidates the service by expanding the target audience;
An institutional operator takes over the service and ensures its sustainability.

Current state start-ups are for example websites to find employment, discover transportation data, and environmental protection programmes.

Networks

RIE

The Réseau Interministériel de l’Etat (Inter-ministerial Network of the State) is a shared network that carries data exchanged within each Ministry and between Ministries. It promotes and secures the exchanges of data between administrations at the service of eGovernment. On 1 January 2015 it interconnected more than 3 000 sites, growing eventually to a target of 17 000 sites. The network will gradually be enriched with additional services: secure Internet browsing, unified directory, etc.).

ISIS

Operational since November 2007, the Secure Inter-Ministry Intranet for Governmental Synergies (ISIS) allows for the exchange and sharing of top secret information among Government actors. ISIS is part of the French Network and Information Security Agency (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information - ANSSI).

Data Exchange

No particular infrastructure in this field was reported to date.

Common eSignature solution

The electronic services provided online to citizens and enterprises via the portal www.service-public.fr are supported by one common electronic signature solution. Thus, only the electronic certificates provided by qualified Certification Service Providers (CSPs) are eligible for the online interactions of citizens and businesses with the Government. To become recognised as such, the certificates are evaluated against the requirements of the General Security Framework. There are three levels of security, namely: medium, high and qualified. The electronic certificates for businesses are issued to natural entities, but there are only to be used on behalf of an enterprise.

Government as a Platform

ePassports

eProcurement

Purchase of fiscal stamps

This new online service allows the purchase of fiscal stamps. The electronic stamp is used to pay the rights of some administrative formalities.

eProcurement Platform

All French public entities are obliged to accept bids submitted electronically in response to formal calls for tenders over a legal threshold published as of 1 January 2005. All Central Government ministries – with the exception of the Ministry of Defence, which has its own platform – can meet this requirement by using the Government-wide eProcurement platform. The platform allows public sector bodies to publish calls for tenders online and receive electronic bids. It is commercialised by UGAP, an inter-ministerial service dedicated to enhancing the efficiency of public procurement.

The use of the platform by local authorities is optional, as these are free to develop their own eProcurement solutions or to adopt commercial solutions, already created on a regional and a local level. In this light, it is worth noting that the Public Procurement Code states that as from 1 January 2010, the French contracting authorities have the right to require the transmission of applications and tenders in electronic format only.

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eInvoicing

Portal for electronic invoicing

This is a portal for electronic invoicing for companies, government suppliers and public entities. These agents are able to accept and issue dematerialized invoices. All these suppliers can therefore send their invoices to the State services.

ePayment

PayFip

Since mid-October 2018, the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGFiP) has been providing public authorities and their users with an enhanced, secure and modern online payment service, PayFiP. PayFiP allows for the payment by bank deposit of invoices issued by local authorities and public bodies (the State, local authorities, hospitals, etc.).

Knowledge Management

References.modernisation.gouv.fr website

The references.modernisation.gouv.fr website contains links to the latest version of the eGovernment policy reference documents aimed at public authorities, namely: General Accessibility framework (RGAA); General Security framework (RGS); General Interoperability framework (RGI); Charter for the ergonomics of public websites.

Adullact.Net platform

In June 2005, an Open Source Software repository and collaborative platform for cooperative software development for the use of the entire French Administration was launched; ‘Admisource’.

Since July 2008, Admisource has been merged with Adullact.Net, the forge of the Association of Developers and Users of Free Software for Administrations and Regional/Local Governments.

Kit de sensibilisation – Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr

The first part of the Kit de sensibilisation was produced by Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr and its members. It raises awareness of digital security issues, share best practices and improve business use.

Cross-border platforms

Cleiss

The Cleiss is the liaison body between French social security institutions and foreign counterparts for implementation of European Regulations and bilateral or multilateral social security agreements.

Base registries

No particular infrastructure in this field was reported to date.

Digital Government Services for Citizens

The information in this section presents an overview of the basic public services provided to the citizens. These were identified taking inspiration from Your Europe, a website which aims to help citizens do things in other European countries – avoiding unnecessary inconvenience and red tape in regard to moving, living, studying, working, shopping or simply travelling abroad. However, the categories used in this factsheet aim to collect a broader range of information, focusing therefore not only on cross-border services, but also on national services.

The groups of services for citizens are as follows:

Travel
Work and retirement
Vehicles
Residence formalities
Education and youth
Health
Family
Consumers

Travel

Document you need for travel in Europe
Passports
Responsibility:	Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Website:	https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/N360
Description:	Information and links to online pre-filling of the file. Passport applications are processed by municipal authorities.
Consular services
Responsibility:	Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Website:	https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F33307
Description:	Consular registration (Register of French citizens established outside France). Registration facilitates administrative processes abroad of expatriate citizens, especially for registration on consular electoral lists.
Ariane: alert system
Responsibility:	Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Website:	https://pastel.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fildariane/dyn/public/login.html
Description:	This free of charge service allows travellers to report data on his/her trip abroad. It will be accessed in the event of a crisis.

Work and retirement

Working abroad, finding a job abroad, retiring
Job search services by labour offices
Responsibility:	Central Government, Pôle Emploi
Website:	http://www.pole-emploi.fr/; https://labonneboite.pole-emploi.fr/
Description:	Fully functional job search facility. Users can access personalised job offers and display their CV online. A summer jobs search portal was made available in March 2007.
Professional qualifications
Legal information (incl. information on the regulated professions)
Responsibility:	Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Website:	https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr
Description:	Legifrance is the French government website where legal texts are published. It provides access, in French, to laws and decrees published in the Journal officiel, important court rulings, and collective labour agreements, standards issued by European institutions, and international treaties and agreements to which France is a party. For reference purposes, Legifrance also provides a number of useful links (to parliamentary assemblies, courts, independent administrative authorities…).
Unemployment & Benefits
*Access to Family Allowances Fund (Caisse d'allocations familiales* (Caf))**
Responsibility:	Caisse nationale des allocations familiales (Cnaf)
Website:	https://wwwd.caf.fr/
Description:	Allows citizens to check their accounts, declare assets and update their personal situation as it changes (for example pregnancy, birth, adoption, death, a new address, new bank account).
Unemployment benefits
Responsibility:	Central Government, 'Pôle Emploi'
Website:	http://www.pole-emploi.fr/
Description:	Information on unemployment benefits, an online application system and monthly unemployment status notification.
Retirement
Responsibility:	Retirement Union
Website:	https://www.info-retraite.fr/portail-services/#/login#header
Description:	Information on retirement. The site is accessible for users through their France Connect login credentials. They can simulate the amount of their retirement money.
Taxes
Income taxes: declaration, notification of assessment
Responsibility:	Central Government, Ministry of the Economy, Industry and the Digital Sector, Directorate-General for Public Finances
Website:	http://www.impots.gouv.fr/
Description:	The tax portal allows individual users to file returns and pay their income tax online, as well as access individual fiscal account. Tax declarations are pre-filled by tax authorities before being sent out and tax payers can modify or add information online, if necessary. No supporting documents are needed and the amount of tax to be paid is indicated. Since 2007, citizens can calculate their tax bill themselves and make adjustments to their monthly tax payments, where necessary. Application Impôt.gouv This mobile application allows taxpayers to declare their income and pay taxes with their prefilled statement.

Vehicles

Driving licence
Driver’s licence
Responsibility:	Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Website:	https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/N530
Description:	Information and online services. Driving licence applications are handled online by the Ministry of Interior. Drivers can log on via a secured website and check the status of the driving points on their licence.
Registration
Car registration (new, used, imported cars)
Responsibility:	Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Website:	https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/N367
Description:	Information and online services. Vehicle registration services are handled online by the Ministry of Interior and in some cases through the car dealers.

Residence formalities

Documents and formalities
Announcement of moving (change of address)
Responsibility:	Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Website:	https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/R11193
Description:	Citizens can communicate their change of address to a number of public services through a single notification service.
Criminal Record Certificate
Responsibility:	Ministry of Justice, Casier Judicaire National
Website:	www.cjn.justice.gouv.fr
Description:	The availability of an application for the Criminal Record Certificate depends on several criteria. It is available as an eService to people born in metropolitan France Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin or Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon via the application procedure on the website (in French) of the Ministry of Justice. For people born in New-Caledonia, French Polynesia or Wallis & Futuna, an application at the Tribunaloft their birth place must be submitted. If a person was born outside of France, they should apply in writing, by post or email, to the Casier Judiciaire National.
Certificates (birth, marriage): request and delivery
Responsibility:	Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Website:	https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/N359
Description:	The national online request system for birth, marriage and death certificates is accessible via the portal ‘www.service-public.fr’. If the municipality is connected to the national system, the requested document will be sent to the applicant by regular mail. The same service is provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the event it was registered abroad.
Declaration to the police (e.g. in case of theft)
Responsibility:	Central Government, Ministry of the Interior
Website:	https://www.pre-plainte-en-ligne.gouv.fr/
Description:	Citizens can make preliminary declarations to the police online.
Housing (building and housing, environment)
Responsibility:	Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Website:	https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/N19808
Description:	Information, forms and online services. Planning and building permission services are handled by Local Governments or by State local authorities.
Election
Subscription to the electoral registry
Responsibility:	Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Website:	https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/R16396
Description:	This online service allows users to be registered on the electoral lists.

Education and youth

School & University
Student portal
Responsibility:	Ministry of Education
Website:	http://www.etudiant.gouv.fr/
Description:	A digital portal available to services. Information included ranges from exchange mobility and accommodation to meal vouchers, etc.
Digital resource bank for the School
Responsibility:	Minister of National Education and Youth
Website:	http://eduscol.education.fr/pid35206/brne.html
Description:	Digital educational resource banks (BRNE) are made available free of charge to teachers and students from fifth to eighth grade and are organised by learning cycles. They offer resources (content and tools) to increase learning through the creation of activities and course materials, course delivery, monitoring and evaluation of skills, training or revision situations.
Enrolment in higher education/university
Responsibility:	Central Government/Higher education institutions
Website:	https://www.parcoursup.fr/
Description:	Information on higher education enrolment and forms to download. Enrolment is handled by individual universities or regional academies.
Student grants
Responsibility:	Central Government, National Centre for University and School Achievements (CNOUS)
Website:	http://www.cnous.fr/
Description:	Information on the different types of grants available for students and online application for some of them. The ‘www.service-public.fr’ portal provides online access to the ‘student social file’, which can be filled out online. This single file allows students to request both grants and accommodations managed by the Regional Centres for University and School Achievements (CROUS).
Student grants II
Responsibility:	Central Government
Website:	https://bourse.beta.gouv.fr/
Description:	The user no longer has to provide proof of residence. After having entered his information, he agrees that the staff in charge in the establishment will have access to his/her tax notice.
Researchers
Information and assistance to researchers
Responsibility:	EURAXESS France
Website:	http://www.euraxess.fr/
Description:	EURAXESS France provides information and assistance to mobile researchers – by means of the web portal and with the support of our national EURAXESS Service Centres. The portal contains practical information concerning professional and daily life, as well as information on job and funding opportunities.
Public libraries (availability of catalogues, search tools)
Responsibility:	Central Government (Ministry of Culture and Communication)/Local Government
Website:	http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Description:	Most public libraries provide an online catalogue searching facility. Gallica, the digital library of the Bibiliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), provides access to digital works (press documents included), as well as images and hours of audio material. http://data.bnf.fr
Public libraries (availability of catalogues, search tools) II
Responsibility:	Central Government (Ministry of Higher Education and Research/Local Government
Website:	https://www.fun-mooc.fr/
Description:	FUN is a MOOC platform (Massive Open Online Courses) at the disposal of the French higher education institutions and academic partners in the world.
Research funding support
Responsibility:	EURAXESS France
Website:	http://www.euraxess.fr/fr/funding/search/country/france-1104
Description:	EURAXESS France provides regularly updated information on the available fellowship and grant opportunities (programmes de bourses) for researchers.

Health

Healthcare
Access to personal medical dossier
Responsibility:	Ministère des Affaires sociales, de la Sante et des Droits des femmes
Website:	http://www.dmp.gouv.fr/
Description:	Provides access to personal medical accounts (‘dossier médical personnel’).
Health related services (interactive advice on the availability of services in different hospitals; appointments for hospitals)
Responsibility:	Central Government
Website:	http://www.hopital.fr/
Description:	Practical information is enlisted on the web portal. No eService is available.
Medical costs (reimbursement or direct settlement)
Responsibility:	Central Government, National Medical Insurance Fund (CNAM)
Website:	http://www.ameli.fr/
Description:	Information on medical insurance forms to download, and online tracking of reimbursements. Direct settlement of some costs is made possible with the smart health insurance card Vitale. Moreover, the eGovernment portal www.service-public.fr provides citizens with direct access to the online tracking of medical reimbursements.

Family

Children and couples
Child allowances
Responsibility:	Central Government, National Family Allowances Fund (CNAF)
Website:	https://www.caf.fr/
Description:	The right to child allowances is automatically calculated by the Family Allowance Funds on the basis of one’s tax declaration.
Child allowances in Lyon
Responsibility:	Municipality of Lyon
Website:	https://www.lyon.fr/demarche/loisirs/calcul-du-quotient-familial-municipal
Description:	Reduction of price for meals in the school canteen, for sport activities, and after-class activities. The amount is determined by the income and composition of the family.

Consumers

Energy supply
Living facilities and energy
Responsibility:	N/A
Website:	http://calculettes.energie-info.fr/calculettes/evolution-electricite
Description:	eService is available to calculate electricity and gas bills. Further support is provided via a helpline and an online formulary.

Digital Government Services for Businesses

The information in this section presents an overview of the basic public services provided to the Businesses. These were identified taking inspiration from Your Europe, a website which aims to help citizens do things in other European countries – avoiding unnecessary inconvenience and red tape in regard to moving, living, studying, working, shopping or simply travelling abroad. However, the categories used in this factsheet aim to collect a broader range of information, focusing therefore not only on cross-border services, but also on national services.

The groups of services for businesses are as follows:

Running a business
Taxation
Selling in the EU
Human Resources
Product requirements
Financing and Funding
Dealing with Customers

Running a business

Intellectual property
Patents
Responsibility:	Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle, Minstry of Economy
Website:	http://www.inpi.fr/fr/services-et-prestations/demarches-en-ligne.html
Description:	INPI is a public, fully funded, under the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Digital. This website provides information on patents, trademarks, designs and access to information on industrial property and businesses. Several forms and online formularies are available on the website as an eService, for example application for patent, trademark or design online, online brand renewal, and other.
Start-ups, Developing a business
Registration of a new company
Responsibility:		Chambers of Commerce and Industry
Website:		http://www.cfenet.cci.fr/
Description:		Online administrative procedures for businesses, including business registration.

Taxation

Excise duties, VAT and business tax
VAT: declaration, notification
Responsibility:	Central Government, Ministry of the Economy, Industry and the Digital Sector, Directorate-General for Public Finances
Website:	http://www.impots.gouv.fr/
Description:	Online declaration and payment of VAT.
Corporate tax: declaration, notification
Responsibility:	Central Government, Ministry of the Economy, Industry and the Digital Sector, Directorate-General for Public Finances
Website:	http://www.impots.gouv.fr/
Description:	Online information and services for all businesses and professionals, including corporate tax declaration and payment.

Selling in the EU

Public contracts
Public procurement / eProcurement
Responsibility:	Central Government, Ministry of Economy, Industry and Digital Sector
Website:	http://www.marches-publics.gouv.fr/; Simplified Public Market
Description:	All central government ministries and entities – with the exception of the Ministry of Defence, which has its own platform – can meet this requirement of using the government-wide eProcurement platform ‘Marches-Publics.gouv.fr’. Through this platform, public sector bodies publish calls for tenders online and receive electronic bids. Its use by local authorities is optional, as they are free to develop their own eProcurement solutions, or to adopt commercial solutions. "Simplified Public Market" (MPS) is widespread since 1 October 2014. It allows companies to respond to call for tenders for public contracts by providing only their Siret number and a certificate of honour instead of supporting documents.
Selling goods and services
Purchase of the fiscal stamps online
Responsibility:	N/A
Website:	https://timbres.impots.gouv.fr/pages/achat/choixTimbres.jsp
Description:	Citizens are allowed to purchase fiscal stamps online for the following purposes: fiscal stamps for passports, fiscal stamps for the French Office for Immigration and Integration (OFII), and the fiscal stamps to make an appeal to a court decision.
Competition between businesses
French law
Responsibility:	Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Website:	https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr
Description:	Legifrance is the French government website where legal texts are published. It provides access, in French, to laws and decrees published in the Journal officiel, important court rulings, and collective labour agreements, standards issued by European institutions, and international treaties and agreements to which France is a party. For reference purposes, Legifrance also provides a number of useful links (to parliamentary assemblies, courts, independent administrative authorities, etc.).
Defender of rights
Responsibility:	Défenseur des droits
Website:	https://formulaire.defenseurdesdroits.fr/defenseur/
Description:	The Defender of Rights is an independent authority of government in charge since 29 March 2011 to ensure the protection of individual rights and freedoms. It is based on the work of a network of delegates through the country: they may receive you, inform you, guide you and process your claim. This claim can be submitted online as an eService.

Human Resources

Employment contracts
Social contributions for employees
Responsibility:	Central Government, Public Interest Group on the Modernisation of Social Declarations
Website:	http://www.net-entreprises.fr/
Description:	The Net-entreprises.fr portal provides a range of services relating to social security contributions including information, simulation, as well as secured declarations and payment using electronic certificates.
Social security and health
Declaration of an accident at work online (DAT)
Responsibility:	Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection (Labour Inspectorate)
Website:	http://www.net-entreprises.fr/vos-declarations-en-ligne/dat/#lessentiel
Description:	The web portal allows an employer to declare an accident at work or whilst commuting online after registration. The declaration must be submitted by the employer or the agent to the primary health insurance fund (CPAM) within 48 hours from the acknowledgment of the accident.

Product requirements

CE marking, Standards in Europe
Environment-related permits (incl. reporting)
Responsibility:	Central Government, Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea
Website:	https://www.ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr/
Description:	Information and downloadable forms for environment-related permits.

Finance and funding

Accounting
Submission of data to statistical offices
Responsibility:	Central Government, State Secretariat for Industry
Website:	http://www.insee.fr/
Description:	Data concerning company revenues already declared to the Tax Administration need not resubmit separately to statistical offices. The same is valid for employees' data submitted to Social security and Employment administrations.

Dealing with customers

Consumer contracts and guarantees
Customs declarations (e-Customs)
Responsibility:	Central Government, Ministry of Economy, Industry and Digital Sector
Website:	http://www.douane.gouv.fr/
Description:	eServices for customs declarations and payments.

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