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What is BODACC?

BODACC is the Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales, in English the Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Announcements: France's legal gazette for every company event, published daily.

Updated 10 October 2026

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Register: BODACC and INPI (RNE)

Identifiers SIREN, SIRET

  • Company recordsYes
  • OfficersYes
  • Insolvency noticesYes
  • Corporate eventsGazette notices
  • MonitoringNo
  • Financial statementsAnnual accounts
  • VAT numberBuilt from the number
  • NACE classYes
  • UpdatedDaily

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The short answer

BODACC stands for Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales. Published daily by France's DILA, it is the legal-publication-of-record for every company event that must be publicly announced — creations, director changes, capital modifications, mergers, insolvencies, radiations.

Unlike BORME (Spain), BODACC data is already semi-structured: the government publishes a JSON feed on the OpenDataSoft platform with one record per announcement. That makes programmatic access much easier than scraping PDFs.

The eight announcement families

BODACC groups notices into eight familleavis values:

  • creation — new companies (SARL, SAS, SA, EURL, SNC, associations…)
  • immatriculation — formal registration in the RCS (Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés)
  • modification — capital changes, director changes, address moves, name changes
  • radiation — de-registration (dissolution, liquidation, transfer abroad)
  • collective — collective procedures: redressement judiciaire, liquidation judiciaire, sauvegarde, plans de continuation
  • vente — business sales (cessions de fonds de commerce)
  • depot — depot des comptes annuels (annual accounts filings)
  • rectificatif — corrections to earlier announcements

Coverage + freshness

Prometiam serves BODACC notices (annonces) and the French company records they link to. Notices published today appear in the API within 2 hours. Historical coverage goes back to 2008.

BODACC covers every entity in the French RCS — commercial companies (SAS, SARL, SA…), sole traders (EI, micro-entrepreneurs), associations, GIEs, and SCIs.

Querying BODACC data

The Prometiam API lets you query by SIREN (9 digits) or company name; the France company data API guide walks through the lookup, the officers and the BODACC events:

# Search by name
GET /companies/search?name=carrefour&country=FR

# Direct SIREN lookup
GET /companies/search?siren=552032534

# Full company detail (appointments, events, contacts)
GET /companies/{id}

# Insolvency / procédures collectives
GET /search?name=carrefour&country=FR

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BODACC vs Pappers vs Societe.com

Pappers and Societe.com are consumer-facing French company-data sites that enrich BODACC + Sirene with bank filings, leadership changes, and market data. They focus on UX and monthly subscriptions.

Prometiam's API is engineered for developers: transparent REST pricing, unified schema across every registry the API covers, including France (BODACC) and Spain (BORME), under one authentication, hosted in the EU (Frankfurt), and no per-seat fees.

FAQ

What is BODACC?
BODACC is France's official gazette for mandatory company announcements, published daily by DILA. Every notice is linked to a SIREN and reports a creation, a modification, an insolvency procedure, a business sale, an accounts filing or a radiation.

What is BODACC in English?
BODACC is the Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales, in English the Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Announcements: France's legal gazette for company events.

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 serves BODACC notices through a searchable REST API at api.prometiam.com, with a 14-day free trial.

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.

BODACC en anglais: how is it translated?
BODACC is translated as the Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Announcements. The French name is Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales, and it is France's legal gazette for company events.

What is BODACC C, and what do the A, B and C editions contain?
BODACC C is the edition for annual accounts: a notice that a company has filed its accounts, not the accounts themselves (the depot family in the data). BODACC A carries new registrations (immatriculations), business sales and collective insolvency proceedings, and BODACC B carries changes to registered companies (modifications) and removals from the register (radiations).

Which BODACC edition lists insolvency proceedings (procedures collectives)?
Collective proceedings (redressement, liquidation judiciaire, sauvegarde) are published in BODACC A. In the Prometiam data they are the collective family, linked to the company's SIREN.

Is BODACC part of the Banque de France?
No. BODACC is published by DILA, the French legal and administrative information directorate, on behalf of the French state. The Banque de France is a separate institution.

What is the Spanish equivalent of BODACC?
The BORME, the Boletín Oficial del Registro Mercantil, is Spain's gazette of company events. See the guide on what the BORME is for how the two compare.