Looking for words in the text

Enter here words to be looked for in the full text of the documents. You can combine a number of terms using the four text fields.

Find: Fill in this field for any text search.
or: search for all documents containing at least one of the terms in the first three fields.
with: search for all documents containing at least one of the terms in the first three fields and the terms in the fourth field.

Practical tips

The search terms must be entered in French, with or without accents.
Do not enter nouns and adjectives in the plural, or use conjugated forms of verbs; the targeted search engine will find a word in all its various forms.
There is no point in entering articles, prepositions, etc.
You can use right truncation (by adding + to a stem), which allows you to work with all the variants of a stem and to replace an indeterminate number of characters. For example, ‘responsab+’ can be used to search for the terms ‘responsable’, ‘responsabilité’, ‘responsabilisation’ and so on.

Looking for words in the title

Enter here words to be looked for in the titles of the documents.

Only documents with titles containing the exact word or expression entered will be displayed. All the terms entered in this field will be found if they are separated from each other by not more than nine words.

Practical tips

The search terms must be entered in French, with or without accents.
Do not enter nouns or adjectives in the plural, or use conjugated forms of verbs; the targeted search engine will find a word in all its various forms.
There is no point in entering articles, prepositions, etc.
You can use right truncation (by adding + to a stem), which allows you to work with all the variants of a stem and to replace an indeterminate number of characters. For example, ‘responsab+’ can be used to search for the terms ‘responsable’, ‘responsabilité’, ‘responsabilisation’ and so on.

Document type

Select the desired type of text from the drop-down menu by clicking on the downward arrow beside the corresponding box. Only one choice is allowed.

Document number

Enter number of the text:

e.g. for texts prior to 2000 (from 1945 onwards): 96-481

e.g. for texts since 2000: 2001-1066

Document date

This is the date on which the document was signed, not its date of publication in the Journal official.

Enter at least the year under ‘from’ (four characters) and then, to narrow down the search, the month and possibly the day of publication (two characters each).

Examples

The whole year 2003: enter only the value ‘2003’for the year under ‘from’.
The month of March 2003 (i.e. from 1 to 31 March inclusive): enter ‘2003’ for the year and ‘03’ (do not forget the 0) for the month under ‘from’.
Only 5 March 2003: enter ‘2003’ for the year, ‘03’ for the month and ‘05’ for the day under ‘from’.

France

Légifrance / Consolidated legislation