What does BODACC stand for?

BODACC stands for Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales — the Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Announcements. It is France's legal publication for mandatory corporate announcements: company creations, modifications, mergers, insolvency, and radiations from commercial registers.

Who publishes BODACC?

BODACC is published by the Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative (DILA) on behalf of the French state. It is published daily and made available via the government open-data portal bodacc-datadila.opendatasoft.com.

What data is in BODACC?

BODACC contains notices across eight families: creation (company formation), immatriculation (RCS registration), modification (capital/director/address changes), radiation (de-registration), collective (insolvency procedures), vente (business sales), depot (accounts filings), and rectificatif (corrections). Each notice links to a SIREN (9-digit company ID).

Yes. BODACC is a public open-data resource. The bulletins are free to access via bodacc-datadila.opendatasoft.com with an ODS API. Prometiam runs a parsed, searchable copy of the dataset at api.prometiam.com with 12M+ French companies and exposes it via a free-tier REST API.

How is BODACC different from Sirene?

Sirene (INSEE) is the master registry of every French business — the source-of-truth for SIREN/SIRET identifiers and administrative data. BODACC is the legal-announcements gazette that publishes changes to those businesses. Sirene tells you a company exists; BODACC tells you what legally happened to it and when.

What is BODACC?

BODACC stands for Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales — France's official legal gazette for mandatory corporate announcements. Published daily by DILA on behalf of the French state, it is the publication-of-record for every company event that must be publicly announced: creations, director changes, capital modifications, mergers, insolvencies, and radiations. Unlike Spain's BORME (which requires PDF scraping), BODACC is already semi-structured — the government publishes a JSON feed on the OpenDataSoft open-data platform, one record per announcement, which makes programmatic access far easier.

The eight announcement families

BODACC groups notices into eight familleavis values:

creation — new companies (SARL, SAS, SA, EURL, SNC…)
immatriculation — formal RCS registration
modification — capital, director, address or name changes
radiation — de-registration (dissolution, liquidation)
collective — insolvency procedures (redressement, liquidation judiciaire, sauvegarde)
vente — business sales (cessions de fonds de commerce)
depot — annual accounts filings
rectificatif — corrections to earlier notices

Coverage and querying

Prometiam's parsed BODACC dataset covers 12M+ French companies, 5M+ corporate acts, 4.9M+ legal notices and 1.7M+ director appointments, with history back to 2008 and today's notices live within about 2 hours. You can query the Risk API by SIREN (9 digits) or company name, retrieve full company detail, and search French insolvency procedures — all under one authentication that also covers Spain (BORME), with EU data residency in Frankfurt and transparent REST pricing.

BODACC differs from Sirene (INSEE): Sirene is the master registry that tells you a company exists; BODACC tells you what legally happened to it and when.

Frequently asked questions

What does BODACC stand for?: BODACC stands for Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales — the Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Announcements. It is France's legal publication for mandatory corporate announcements: company creations, modifications, mergers, insolvency, and radiations from commercial registers.
Who publishes BODACC?: BODACC is published by the Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative (DILA) on behalf of the French state. It is published daily and made available via the government open-data portal bodacc-datadila.opendatasoft.com.
What data is in BODACC?: BODACC contains notices across eight families: creation (company formation), immatriculation (RCS registration), modification (capital/director/address changes), radiation (de-registration), collective (insolvency procedures), vente (business sales), depot (accounts filings), and rectificatif (corrections). Each notice links to a SIREN (9-digit company ID).
Is BODACC free?: Yes. BODACC is a public open-data resource. The bulletins are free to access via bodacc-datadila.opendatasoft.com with an ODS API. Prometiam runs a parsed, searchable copy of the dataset at api.prometiam.com with 12M+ French companies and exposes it via a free-tier REST API.
How is BODACC different from Sirene?: Sirene (INSEE) is the master registry of every French business — the source-of-truth for SIREN/SIRET identifiers and administrative data. BODACC is the legal-announcements gazette that publishes changes to those businesses. Sirene tells you a company exists; BODACC tells you what legally happened to it and when.