The web version proposed here is a simplified version of the data sheet. You can find the complete version, with more details and legal references, on the pdf linked at the bottom of the page.
Definition
Administrative documents are documents which, whatever their date, place of storage, form and medium, are produced or received, within the framework of their public service mission, by the State, the local authorities as well as by other persons under public law or persons under private law entrusted with such a mission. The following are thus concerned:
→the works of the mind within the meaning of the Intellectual Property Code ;
→source codes, following an explicit addition in this sense by the legislator in the non-exhaustive list of examples of administrative documents. CADA regularly recalls this principle.
The phrase "within the framework of their public service mission" may give rise to difficulties of interpretation. A sufficient link with the public service mission is in practice required.
In order to be subject to the right of access and the obligations of communication and dissemination, administrative documents must be :
→existing. Administrations are thus not required to develop documents to respond to requests based on this right and obligation;
→in their final versions. This means that unfinished documents and preparatory documents are in principle excluded.
Unfinished documents and preparatory documents are in principle excluded.
This fact sheet is a joint publication by Vercken & Gaullier and inno³ on behalf of the Digital Society Lab (labo.societenumerique.gouv.fr). Intended to promote the emergence of a common legal doctrine regarding commons produced or supported by the administration, it is aimed at both the actors who are carriers of commons as well as the people in charge of supporting these approaches. It is intended to be updated according to legislative and jurisprudential developments and to be completed according to contributions and remarks. It does not constitute legal advice and does not in any way replace the opinions that must be sought from the competent persons within each department. Finally, do not hesitate to consult the website http://labo.societenumerique.gouv.fr in order to read the latest versions of these documents, to consult any other resource for public actors wishing to mobilize the potential of the digital commons in their strategy or to contribute to this dynamic.
Legal doctrine applied to digital commons developed under the impetus or with the participation of a public entity
Factsheet 3.3: Identifying an Administrative Document
The web version proposed here is a simplified version of the data sheet. You can find the complete version, with more details and legal references, on the pdf linked at the bottom of the page.
Definition
Administrative documents are documents which, whatever their date, place of storage, form and medium, are produced or received, within the framework of their public service mission, by the State, the local authorities as well as by other persons under public law or persons under private law entrusted with such a mission. The following are thus concerned:
→the works of the mind within the meaning of the Intellectual Property Code ;
→source codes, following an explicit addition in this sense by the legislator in the non-exhaustive list of examples of administrative documents. CADA regularly recalls this principle.
The phrase "within the framework of their public service mission" may give rise to difficulties of interpretation. A sufficient link with the public service mission is in practice required.
In order to be subject to the right of access and the obligations of communication and dissemination, administrative documents must be :
→existing. Administrations are thus not required to develop documents to respond to requests based on this right and obligation;
→in their final versions. This means that unfinished documents and preparatory documents are in principle excluded.
Unfinished documents and preparatory documents are in principle excluded.
This fact sheet is a joint publication by Vercken & Gaullier and inno³ on behalf of the Digital Society Lab (labo.societenumerique.gouv.fr). Intended to promote the emergence of a common legal doctrine regarding commons produced or supported by the administration, it is aimed at both the actors who are carriers of commons as well as the people in charge of supporting these approaches. It is intended to be updated according to legislative and jurisprudential developments and to be completed according to contributions and remarks. It does not constitute legal advice and does not in any way replace the opinions that must be sought from the competent persons within each department. Finally, do not hesitate to consult the website http://labo.societenumerique.gouv.fr in order to read the latest versions of these documents, to consult any other resource for public actors wishing to mobilize the potential of the digital commons in their strategy or to contribute to this dynamic.