FranceLoi 78-17 Article 47, Automated Administrative Decisions
Loi n. 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978, Art. 47
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In force since 6 January 1978.
A data subject rights rule binding government bodies.
As of 24 August 2026.
What it requires
- Expect a French public-sector body using solely automated processing to reach an administrative decision about you to owe an explicability duty under Loi 78-17 Article 47, beyond the general General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 22 baseline.
What this law does
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Loi 78-17 Article 47 extends an automated-decision explicability duty specifically to French government decisions, beyond General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 22's own scope. Article 47's own text is not cited at article level. No date specific to Article 47's own insertion or last amendment is established.
The date recorded here is Loi n. 78-17's own promulgation date, 6 January 1978, confirmed against the consolidated text; it is the parent Act's promulgation date, not a confirmed commencement date for Article 47 itself, which almost certainly postdates it given the article's subject matter.
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