Updated on 07/11/2024
Authorization requests for the year 2025 must be sent before December 5, 2024.
Regulations require that certain events linked to the life of companies, local authorities or individuals be the subject of an announcement (known as a “legal announcement”) in a medium authorized to receive legal announcements (SHAL). This is the case for a company, when it is formed, when its statutes are amended, etc. Certain public contracts launched by local authorities must also be the subject of such an announcement. Finally, for individuals, this is the case when changing their name for legitimate reasons.
SHALs are press publications or online press services which have been authorized by the prefect to publish these announcements in the department under the conditions detailed below. Legal announcements respond to a real challenge of information and transparency for citizens, particularly with regard to the life of businesses and, more broadly, the economic activity of actors in the territory. The list of SHALs in each department is accessible on the Actulégales portal (https://actulegales.fr/).
> Authorization requests for the year 2025
Authorization requests for the year 2025 must be sent to the Prefecture of Essonne before Thursday December 5, 2024. Any file received after the deadline will not be studied
Files can be sent:
> by digital way to the address [email protected] (for sending large files, the secure France Transfert solution can be used: https://francetransfert.numerique.gouv.fr/upload)
> by postal route to the address:
Prefecture of Essonne
Office of State Representation and Interministerial Communication
Office of the Prefect
Boulevard de France
TSA 51101
91010 Évry-Courcouronnes CEDEX
Use : the same publisher can hold a SPEL and a press publication, these having a separate CPPAP registration number. In this case, the publisher must request separate authorization for its SPEL and for its press publication, each of which will be examined by the prefectural services according to the rules specific to each medium. Thus, the authorization of one of the two supports does not automatically entail the authorization of the second support.
The publisher can choose to request authorization for only one of its two media. In this case, any of these media which is not authorized will not be able to publish any judicial/legal announcement.
Find all the guidelines for the year 2025 on the website of the Ministry of Culture.
Find the forms below, to be returned duly completed and accompanied by all supporting documents:
> Applicable regulations
Applicable texts:
– Law No. 55-4 of January 4, 1955 concerning judicial and legal announcements, last amended by article 3 of Law No. 2019-486 of May 22, 2019 relating to the growth and transformation of businesses;
– Law No. 86-897 of August 1, 1986 reforming the legal regime of the press;
– Decree No. 2009-1340 of October 29, 2009 taken to implement Article 1 of Law No. 86-897 of August 1, 1986 reforming the legal regime of the press;
– Decree No. 2012-1547 of December 28, 2012 amended relating to the insertion of legal announcements relating to companies and businesses in a central digital database;
– Decree No. 2019-1216 of November 21, 2019 amended relating to judicial and legal announcements.
> Order publishing the list of authorized periodicals for 2024
Find the prefectural decree fixing for the year 2024 the list of periodicals authorized to publish judicial and legal announcements in the department of Essonne:
