BODACC Guides

Understand BODACC legal notices: what the Official Bulletin is, the notice families, insolvency proceedings, annual accounts filing, company creation and transformation. Free practical guides to browse and interpret French legal notices.

You are looking for a specific company

Start with its name or its SIREN number. The company search accepts both, without accent and without case: "societe generale" and "Société Générale" give the same result, and the SIREN identifies a company with certainty, including when the name is ambiguous. Once on the record, the history of announcements recounts the legal life of the company: creation, changes of directors, filing of accounts, proceedings, possible removal from the register.

You are checking a customer, a supplier or a tenant

The question asked is almost always the same: is this company still active, and does it have a past that was not told to me? Three elements answer this. The presence or absence of a recent notice indicates whether the company is still publishing, which is the case as long as it files its accounts. The family of the notice distinguishes a simple update from a collective procedure. The dates, finally, situate each event and make it possible to measure whether the situation is old or current.

You are monitoring a sector or a territory

The notices are classified by category and by geographical jurisdiction. It is therefore possible to monitor the creations of a sector of activity, the sales of business assets of a department or the collective proceedings of a region, and to see the volumes change with each publication. The bulletin is published every working day: it is this frequency that distinguishes regular monitoring from a one off audit.

You are building a service on the data

The data of the BODACC are public and we expose them through a documented programming interface. You will find there the announcements, the companies, the persons and the statistics, with stable pagination and filters by family, department, date or SIREN. Conversational agents can read the documentation directly, and each page of the site exists in twenty languages, which simplifies the reuse of the labels in a foreign interface.