Legal Notice

Legal notices are publications made to a journal empowered to publish legal advertisements. They usually publicize events such as the creation or removal of a company or of its headquarters, changes in leadership or ownership, and so on...

The Legal Notices' entire history is synchronized regardless of the current month_history setting.

Field	Type	Description
id	`uuid`	Unique identifier (UUID)
provider_name	`string`	Provider from which this legal notice was obtained
date	date	Publication date of the legal notice. For an observation of the registry, the day it was registered, often days or weeks after the judgment it reports: see `judgment_date`.
source	`string`	Journal or registry where the notice was published or found. See Sources below.
origin	`string`	Origin of the legal notice data
type	`string`	Type of notice
category	`string`	Category of the legal notice. For BODACC collective procedure announcements and observations describing a procedure, this is the procedure category (same taxonomy as the collective procedure `category` field, e.g. `Redressement judiciaire`, `Radiation`; an observation reporting a decision of a court of appeal is in `Décision Cour d'appel`, unless the arrêt opens a procedure itself, in the category of that procedure; the follow-up acts of an open procedure, such as the observation period extended or renewed, an organ of the procedure appointed or replaced, the continued activity authorized or the closing of the procedure that led to the plan (R.631-43), in `Acte administratif / Suivi`, even when they name the procedure). Administrative mentions (BODACC B and RNE/INPI observations) carry an administrative category instead (`Perte de la moitié du capital`, `Transfert de siège`, `Dirigeants`...). `null` when the text carries neither. See Categories below for the 25 categories and what each one means.
event	`string`	Event described by the notice
text	`string`	Text content and details of the notice
link	`string`	URL where the original notice can be found
status	`string`	`null` for a current notice. `removed_from_registry` when the registry withdrew the observation behind it (`Observations RNE` source only). See Notices removed from the registry below.
removed_at	date	Day the withdrawal from the registry was detected, when `status` is `removed_from_registry`; `null` otherwise.
judgment_date	date	Date of the court decision the notice reports, while `date` stays the date of the notice itself (publication, registration), often days or weeks later. By source: `BODACC A`: for a notice of a collective procedure, the judgment date (« date de jugement ») BODACC publishes with the notice. A rectification keeps the date of the judgment, not the date of the notice it corrects. For an arrêt or an order of a court of appeal, the date of that decision, read from `text`. `null` for the other BODACC A notices (registrations, sales and transfers). `JAL`: for a notice of a court decision (`category` such as `Redressement Judiciaire`, `Liquidation Judiciaire`, `Plan de cession`, `Clôture pour insuffisance d'actifs`, `Jugement`), the effective date the legal gazette gives, else the date of the judgment read from `text`. `null` for the other categories: the life of the company (capital, officers, registered office...), the deposits of the claims, the offers to take over, the sanctions and the rectifications. `TCO`: the date of the judgment, read from `text`. `Observations RNE`, `Observations INPI`: the date of the court decision the observation reports, read from `text` ("Le Tribunal des Activités Économiques de Paris, a prononcé, en date du 04/09/2026, l'ouverture de la liquidation judiciaire" gives `2026-09-04`). For a decision of a court of appeal, the date of the arrêt or of the order itself. `null` for an observation that reports no court decision (radiation d'office, capital loss...). `BODACC B`, `BODACC C`: always `null`. When the date is read from `text`, the other dates of the text (cessation des paiements, end of the observation period...) are not taken, and a text that gives no date for the decision has a `null` judgment date. Computed from the notice, it never triggers a notification by itself.

Categories

Qard computes the category of BODACC A collective procedure announcements, of RNE / INPI observations and of BODACC B notices: 25 categories in all, 14 for collective procedures and 11 for administrative mentions. The text is compared without case, accents or extra spaces; when it matches several rules, the first in each table wins (the outcome before the procedure it names: "clôture pour insuffisance d'actif de la liquidation judiciaire" is a Radiation).

Collective procedures

For a BODACC A announcement, the category comes from the judgment nature, and from the judgment text only for the generic natures ("Autre jugement et ordonnance", "Autre jugement prononçant"...), the decisions of the courts of appeal and the retractions. For an observation of the registry, it is read from the text. Same taxonomy as the collective procedure category.

Category	Meaning	Recognized from
`Sortie de crise`	"Traitement de sortie de crise" procedure: opening, plan, modification, end	"sortie de crise"
`Sortie de procédure`	The procedure ends and the company goes on	"tierce opposition", "rétractation", "extinction du passif", "mettant fin à la procédure", "clôture de la procédure de sauvegarde", "après exécution du plan", "constate l'exécution du plan"
`Radiation`	Judicial liquidation closed for insufficiency of assets, or closed with no ground stated; de-registration	"insuffisance d'actif", "clôture des opérations de liquidation judiciaire", "radiation", "radié"
`Sanction dirigeant`	Personal bankruptcy or management ban pronounced by the court	"faillite personnelle", "interdiction de gérer"
`Liquidation judiciaire`	Opening, conversion, extension or resumption of a judicial liquidation, simplified or not	"liquidation judiciaire", "liquidation des biens", "conversion en liquidation"
`Cession`	Sale plan adopted, modified or resolved	"plan de cession", "plan par cession", "arrête la cession"
`Plan de redressement`	Recovery or continuation plan adopted, modified or resolved without liquidation	"plan de redressement", "plan de continuation"
`Plan de sauvegarde`	Safeguard plan adopted, modified or resolved	"plan de sauvegarde"
`Redressement judiciaire`	Opening, extension or conversion into receivership, or debtor put back into receivership	"redressement judiciaire", a retraction of the liquidation that reopens the receivership
`Sauvegarde`	Opening or extension of a safeguard procedure (accelerated variants included)	"sauvegarde"
`Conciliation`	Conciliation agreement homologated, amended or resolved	"conciliation", "homologation de l'accord", an amendment to the protocol homologated
`Acte administratif / Suivi`	Follow-up act of an open procedure, which does not change its outcome	statement or list of claims, distribution project, observation period extended or renewed, continued activity, organ of the procedure appointed, replaced or discharged, closing of the procedure that led to the plan (R.631-43), stay of the provisional enforcement of a judgment
`Décision Cour d'appel`	Decision of a court of appeal, or order of its first president, on an earlier judgment	a text that opens on the arrêt or the order ("Arrêt de la Cour d'Appel…", "Par arrêt…", "Infirme le jugement…"); a sanction pronounced by the court. See Appeal decisions
`Autre / Non classé`	BODACC judgment that no rule classifies	a generic nature whose text names no outcome, "rétablissement professionnel"

A decision of the same text prevails over a follow-up act: a text that extends the observation period and converts the procedure into a liquidation is a Liquidation judiciaire. A judgment of the commercial court that only cites an arrêt, or a decision of the Cour de cassation, is not a Décision Cour d'appel.

Administrative mentions

For RNE / INPI observations and BODACC B notices that describe no collective procedure.

Category	Meaning	Recognized from
`Perte de la moitié du capital`	Equity fell below half of the share capital, and the company continues	"actif net devenu inférieur à la moitié", "capitaux propres inférieurs à la moitié", "non-dissolution"
`Reconstitution des capitaux propres`	Equity restored to at least half of the share capital	"reconstitution des capitaux propres"
`Dissolution`	Early dissolution of the company	"dissolution"
`Fusion / Scission / TUP`	Merger, demerger, universal transfer of assets or partial contribution of assets	"fusion", "scission", "transmission universelle", "apport partiel d'actif"
`Transfert de siège`	Registered office moved	"transfert de siège", "ancien siège", "nouveau siège", "modification de l'adresse du siège"
`Domiciliation`	Registered office set at a domiciliation company or at the legal representative's home	"domiciliation", "fixé au domicile du représentant légal"
`Cessation d'activité`	Activity stopped, in whole or at an establishment	"cessation d'activité", "ne conserve aucune activité"
`Location-gérance`	Lease management of the business	"location-gérance", "gérance-mandat"
`Modification du capital`	Share capital increased, reduced or modified	"augmentation / réduction / modification du capital"
`Immatriculation`	Registration with the trade register	"en cours d'immatriculation", "immatriculée au RCS"
`Dirigeants`	Change of the company's officers or representatives	"modification survenue sur l'administration", "modification de représentant"

category is null when the text matches none of these rules (a domain name, a conversion of the capital into euros, an auditor replaced...), and for BODACC C notices and the BODACC A announcements that are not collective procedures (sales of businesses, contributions). JAL and TCO notices keep the category of the legal gazette as it is (Liquidation Judiciaire, Clôture pour insuffisance d'actifs, Modification du Capital social...), outside this taxonomy.

Sources

Source	Description
`BODACC A`	BODACC bulletin A: registrations, collective procedures, sales and transfers.
`BODACC B`	BODACC bulletin B: modifications and strike-offs.
`BODACC C`	BODACC bulletin C: filings of annual accounts.
`Observations RNE`	Observations recorded in the Registre National des Entreprises (RNE, maintained by the INPI). These are typically available within 1 to 2 business days after the registry entry, well before the corresponding BODACC publication (usually about a week later). For these notices, `type` is `observation` and `link` is `null`; when available, the registry date is appended to `text` as `Date greffe: YYYY-MM-DD`.
`Observations INPI`	Legacy observations from the RNCS registry, which was replaced by the RNE in 2023 and is no longer updated. Kept for history; new observations arrive with the `Observations RNE` source.
`JAL`	Notices published in the legal gazettes (journaux d'annonces légales); `origin` names the gazette.
`TCO`	Notices of the commercial courts (tribunaux de commerce).

Notices removed from the registry

The INPI sometimes withdraws observations from the Registre National des Entreprises, for instance the mentions of a radiation d'office it later cancels. A notice whose observation was withdrawn is not deleted: it stays in the list, so that a notice you already received does not disappear, with status set to removed_from_registry and removed_at set to the day the withdrawal was detected. Its other fields are unchanged, id included.

A notice removed from the registry is history, not news:

its withdrawal does not trigger a notification, and neither does its return, should the registry restore the observation (status goes back to null);
a company added to your monitoring after the withdrawal receives the notice with its removed_from_registry status, without a notification.

To show only what the registry currently says, keep the notices whose status is null.

Endpoints

GET/api/v6/users/{userId}/legal-notices

Returns the list of legal notices published for the user's company.

Response:

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  "result": [
    {
      "id": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000",
      "provider_name": "company_legal_fr",
      "date": "2021-05-19",
      "source": "BODACC A",
      "origin": "RCS",
      "type": "creation",
      "category": "compulsory",
      "event": "Immatriculation d'une personne morale",
      "text": "...",
      "link": "https://...",
      "status": null,
      "removed_at": null,
      "judgment_date": null
    },
    {
      "id": "b7e4a0d2-1c58-4f93-8e26-5d0a9c3f7b14",
      "provider_name": "company_legal_fr",
      "date": "2023-09-26",
      "source": "BODACC A",
      "origin": null,
      "type": "rectificatif",
      "category": "Liquidation judiciaire",
      "event": "Jugement de conversion en liquidation judiciaire",
      "text": "Rectification du jugement: 2023-09-08\nDate de jugement: 2023-08-07\nJugement convertissant en liquidation judiciaire, référencée LJ364/23, la procédure de redressement judiciaire ouverte le 6 juillet 2023 (...)",
      "link": "https://www.bodacc.fr/pages/annonces-commerciales-detail/?q.id=id:A202301852819",
      "status": null,
      "removed_at": null,
      "judgment_date": "2023-08-07"
    },
    {
      "id": "e2c95f13-6a07-4b8d-9f41-0d7b3a8e5c26",
      "provider_name": "shal",
      "date": "2025-02-21",
      "source": "JAL",
      "origin": "Le Parisien WEB",
      "type": "Annonces Légales",
      "category": "Liquidation Judiciaire",
      "event": "Liquidation Judiciaire",
      "text": "Affaire: NEXYAD. (...) Jugement du tribunal des activités économiques de Nanterre en date du 13 février 2025 a prononcé la liquidation judiciaire (...)",
      "link": null,
      "status": null,
      "removed_at": null,
      "judgment_date": "2025-02-13"
    },
    {
      "id": "3f2b1c9a-7d64-4e08-9a51-2f8d0c1e6b47",
      "provider_name": "company_legal_fr",
      "date": "2026-02-05",
      "source": "Observations RNE",
      "origin": null,
      "type": "observation",
      "category": "Sauvegarde",
      "event": "Ajout",
      "text": "Procédure de sauvegarde - jugement d'ouverture en date du 04/02/2026\nDate greffe: 2026-02-05",
      "link": null,
      "status": null,
      "removed_at": null,
      "judgment_date": "2026-02-04"
    },
    {
      "id": "8c1d2e47-5b39-4f6a-b0e2-7a94c3d5f810",
      "provider_name": "company_legal_fr",
      "date": "2026-06-08",
      "source": "Observations RNE",
      "origin": null,
      "type": "observation",
      "category": "Radiation",
      "event": null,
      "text": "Radiation d'office - art. R 123-136 du code de commerce (...)",
      "link": null,
      "status": "removed_from_registry",
      "removed_at": "2026-10-19",
      "judgment_date": null
    }
  ]
}

Categories​

Collective procedures​

Administrative mentions​

Sources​

Notices removed from the registry​

Endpoints​