Journal officiel de la R3epublique fran1caise

In France, the Official journal of the French Republic , also called Official journal, OJ or JORF, is the official daily newspaper published by the State, in which are consigned all the legislative events (Loi S, Décret S), lawful (stopped S), legal official declarations and publications. Its under-titer : Laws & decrees .

OJ is published the every day of the Tuesday to Sunday except bank holidays.

The Direction of the Official journals is charged - in addition to the edition and the diffusion of the legislative texts and the principal statutory texts - with their organization in data banks and the edition of the parliamentary debates and the legal advertisements on paper media and numerical. It is one of the services of the Prime Minister. For this reason, it is placed since 1944 pennies the authority of the general secretary of the government and is directed by a prefect named in the Council of Ministers.

The date of publication to OJ in general conditions the date on which the text produces legal effects (since it is necessary that a text is known to be applicable), except if the text itself indicates a time of application. Articles of law returning to decrees on enforcement of a law cannot come into effect as long as the decrees are not in their turn published in OJ (see).

History

Before the diffusion of the laws to the population is not carried out by written way, the laws were communicated to the public by the drum of city.

Starting from 1631, '' the Gazette '' of Théophraste Renaudot, the first French newspaper, publishes some accounts of war and the comments on the political life. This nonofficial press agency is created with the assistance of Richelieu, under Louis XIII. A royal patent of Louis XV in 1762 attaches the Gazette, re-elected for the occasion Gazette of France, at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. the Gazette, which appears twice per week, takes an official character consequently.

Become national Gazette of France in November 1789, it publishes now the debates of the constituent National Assembly and information concerning the political life and the operation of the administration. the Gazette becomes daily in 1792.

The 7 nivôse year VIII (December 28th, 1799), an opinion specifies that the universal Monitor (subtitle of the national Gazette, then its title starting from 1811) becomes the only newspaper in official matter. Only its first part comprises the instruments of the government and the National Assembly, the second being more traditional , with literary columns, scientific and artistic.

In January 1791, a decree creates a second journal : the Bulletin of the laws . The law of the 14 frimaire an II (December 4th, 1793) makes of it the official collection of the laws of the Republic. It carries the seal of the State and the signature of the Minister for Justice.

The Official journal appears in 1868, and a decree of November 5th, 1870 gives him the monopoly of the publication of the legislative acts and lawful. the universal Monitor disappears and the Bulletin of the laws loses its monopoly, but the existence of this last is called into question only in 1931. Initially placed under the authority of the ministry for the Interior and the Worships, the Official journal is attached to the presidency of the government on November 2nd, 1944.

Since, the Official journal was declined on new supports such Internet, its online version being taken very as much as the version paper since June 2nd, 2004.
Si certain texts appear only on the version paper, the reverse is true aussi : some are published only on the electronic version (see the decree on the 5 articles concerned http://www.servicedoc.info/Decret-d-application-sur-le-JO.html), others still are printed and put on line. To note that the decrees of naturalization are not put on line, they are available only in version paper. It is the same of the extracts of judgment for tax evasion and the requests for change of patronym.

External bonds

the Official journals
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Consultation of electronic '' OJ '' authenticated (since June 2nd, 2004)

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