Journal officiel de la République française

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Journal officiel de la République française

description Official Journal of the Republic of France
First edition 1868
Frequency of publication daily except Mondays and public holidays.
Web link www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/
ISSN (print) 0242-6773

The Journal officiel de la République française (also called Journal officiel , JO or JORF ) is the official state gazette for France that is published daily . All legislative activities (laws and ordinances), regulations and pronouncements in the legislative field are published in it. In Germany, the Journal officiel is comparable to the Federal Law Gazette .

The Journal officiel appears daily from Tuesday to Sunday, with the exception of public holidays .

In addition to the publication and dissemination of the legal texts and regulations, the management of the JO is responsible for storing these in a database and recording parliamentary debates on paper and in digital form. The Journal officiel has been subordinate to the Prime Minister since 1944 and is assigned to the Government's State Secretariat in his administrative apparatus. Since 2010, responsibility for the JO has been with the newly created Direction de l'information légale et administrative (DILA), an authority still subordinate to the Prime Minister, which emerged from a merger of La Documentation française and Journal officiel . The director of DILA is appointed by the President of the State in the Council of Ministers by decree on the proposal of the Prime Minister .

The publication date is relevant to the entry into force as a legal text must be known before it is valid. Therefore, a law generally comes into force on the day after its publication in the JO, unless a date for the entry into force is specified in the publication. A legal text, for the implementation of which ordinances are necessary, can only come into force as soon as these have also been published.

history

Before the legal texts were distributed in writing, they were publicly announced by a city ​​spokesman .

From 1631 the first newspaper in France was the Gazette , which was founded by Théophraste Renaudot with the support of Richelieu (under Louis XIII ) and in which reports on wars and commentaries on political life were published. In 1762 this unofficial organ was subordinated to the Foreign Ministry under the new name Gazette de France and thus became the official organ of the royal government. In the year of the French Revolution in 1789, the debates of the convened General Estates or the Constituent Assembly were published in a supplement (title: États-généraux , then Assemblée nationale , later Le Gazettin ), as well as information on political life and the structure of the administration. From August 1792 the paper was renamed Gazette nationale de France and from then on appeared daily. At the end of 1797 it was given back its old name, Gazette de France , which it kept almost continuously until it was closed in 1915.

In 1793, during the reign of terror , a further publication organ was founded by decree: The Bulletin des lois . By law, it became a public archive of the laws of the republic and bore the state seal and the signature of the Minister of Justice. It was only abolished on April 1, 1931.

In November 1789 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke founded the Gazette nationale ou le Moniteur universel . In 1799 it became the official organ of the French government (from 1811 only under the title Le Moniteur universel ) and remained so until the end of 1868 (only between July 1814 and January 1816 the official part was replaced by a Gazette officielle ). The official announcements of the government and the National Assembly appeared only in the first part. In the second part, classic newspaper columns with literary, scientific and artistic content appeared. With the beginning of the Second Republic in 1848, Le Moniteur universel was given the title addition Journal officiel de la République française , during the Second Empire (from 1852) Journal officiel de l'Empire français .

After a conflict with Napoleon III. the official part of the Moniteur universel was replaced at the turn of the year 1868/69 by a state Journal officiel de l'Empire français . A decree of November 5, 1870 gave the new Journal officiel the monopoly to publish activities in the legislative field and regulations. (The Moniteur universel continued to exist as an independent, generally conservative newspaper until 1901.)

For the time of the Vichy regime it was renamed the Journal officiel de l'État français .

By a law of 1880, the Journal officiel was assigned to the Ministry of the Interior ; since November 2nd, 1944 (after Liberation ) it has been under the jurisdiction of the French Prime Minister.

The website has been online since June 2nd, 2004.

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