Law note · France
Loi 78-17 Article 47, Automated Administrative Decisions
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. This session did not independently read Article 47's text; a direct fetch of the law's landing page did not surface it before truncating, and a follow-up attempt at the article-level page was met with a CAPTCHA, a full stop under crawling rules, not something to solve.
No date specific to Article 47's own insertion or last amendment could be established. The date recorded here is Loi n. 78-17's own promulgation date, 6 January 1978, confirmed by direct fetch of the consolidated text elsewhere in this document; 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.
What it asks of an app
- 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.
When LexLint raises it
Declared activities: high_risk_decisions
Primary source: Legifrance, consolidated text (direct fetch, promulgation date only
Article 47's own text and date not independently confirmed)