What DEBLOK2 does

BODACC (Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales) is the official French government bulletin operated by DILA (Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative), a central administration direction under the Prime Minister's office. It publishes civil and commercial announcements for businesses registered in France across three bulletin series: Series A covers creations, registrations, sales, transfers, and collective procedures; Series B covers modifications and radiations; Series C covers company account deposits. The platform also publishes civil announcements including personal rehabilitation notices for over-indebted individuals and estate acceptance/possession orders.

The platform's technology stack centers on the bodacc.fr website, supplemented by a free email alert service (26,000 subscribers), an OpenDataSoft-hosted REST API for programmatic data access (live since June 28, 2021), the e-ARP application for electronic submission of personal rehabilitation notices by court registries, and FranceConnect-based single sign-on. The underlying database holds over 50.25 million historical records, with more than 3.5 million announcements published in 2024 and over 9 million website visits recorded in the same year.

BODACC operates as a non-commercial public service, funded entirely through French government budget allocations rather than user fees. All access — web search, API, alerts, and data downloads — is provided free of charge under the etalab-2.0 open data license. The platform serves three horizontal customer segments: business professionals and companies (primary), legal and judicial professionals including courts and registries (primary), and the general public seeking information on business closures, personal rehabilitation, and estate matters (secondary). Distribution occurs exclusively through digital channels, primarily the bodacc.fr website, OpenDataSoft API, the PPLE (Portail de Publicité Légale des Entreprises) portal, and cross-linked government portals including data.gouv.fr and service-public.gouv.fr.

Name

DEBLOK2

Legal name

Direction de l'Information Légale et Administrative (DILA)

Website

https://bodacc.fr

Company type

Public

Operating status

Operating

Short description

BODACC is the official French government bulletin operated by DILA, publishing mandatory civil and commercial announcements for French businesses. It serves legal professionals, business users, and the public via a free web portal, email alerts, and OpenDataSoft API.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Boulogne-sur-mer

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Public Service Funding: As a government service under DILA (Direction de l'information légale et administrative), BODACC operations are funded through general government budget allocations rather than direct user fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

DEBLOK2 operates BODACC (Bulletin Officiel des Annonces Civiles et Commerciales), the official French government publication for civil and commercial legal announcements concerning businesses registered in the national register (RNE). The platform publishes creations, immatriculations, sales and transfers, collective procedures, conciliation procedures, professional rehabilitation, modifications, radiations, and company account deposits, along with civil announcements for personal rehabilitation and estate acceptance. Free public access is provided through a web search interface, an email alert service, and a public open data API hosted via OpenDataSoft.

Product overview

BODACC (Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales) is a comprehensive French government platform for publishing legal business announcements, managed by DILA (Direction de l'information légale et administrative). The platform consists of the core bodacc.fr website providing access to commercial and civil announcements, supplemented by the BODACC Alert Service for email notifications, the BODACC API for programmatic data access via OpenDataSoft, and the e-ARP application for electronic submission of personal rehabilitation notices. The platform publishes announcements across three bulletin series: BODACC A (sales, creations, registrations, collective procedures), BODACC B (modifications, radiations), and BODACC C (company account deposits).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• BODACC Bulletin The official French government bulletin publishing civil and commercial announcements for businesses registered in the national business register (RNE), including creations, registrations, sales and transfers, collective procedures, conciliation procedures, professional rehabilitation, modifications, radiations, and company account deposits. Ensures legal publicity required by the French Commercial Code.
• BODACC Alert Service Free email alert service that notifies users daily when new BODACC announcements matching their predefined search criteria are published. Users can create up to 10 different alerts and save unlimited searches in their personal account, providing automated monitoring of French business announcements.
• BODACC API Public REST API provided via OpenDataSoft portal enabling programmatic access to BODACC commercial announcements with filtering by announcement type, department, publication date, and keyword search. Enables developers and data integrators to incorporate BODACC data into applications, with full documentation for programmatic queries.
• e-ARP Application Electronic application (e-ARP, Avis de Rétablissement Personnel) enabling court registries and authorized agents to electronically submit and publish personal rehabilitation notices to BODACC. Users with Greffe (Court) or Mandataire (Authorized Agent) accounts can create, manage, and publish rehabilitation notices for over-indebted individuals under court protection.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• PPLE (Portail de Publicité Légale des Entreprises)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 February 2014BODACC is a founding partner of the PPLE portal established by the GIP PPLE (Groupement d'Intérêt Public). PPLE aggregates BODACC data with RNE data from Infogreffe and legal gazette announcements (JAL) from Actulegales.fr, providing unified access to all official French business legal information.
• APTE (Association de la presse pour la transparence économique)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of three founding members of the GIP PPLE consortium alongside DILA and CNGTC, representing press interests in economic transparency.
• CNGTC (Conseil national des greffiers des tribunaux de commerce)coreTechnology or IntegrationSource of primary data for BODACC publications. Court registries across France transmit business registration data including creations, modifications, dissolutions, and collective proceedings to BODACC for official publication.
• OpenDataSoftcoreTechnology or IntegrationProvides the API infrastructure and data hosting platform for BODACC open data access, enabling programmatic queries and dataset exploration.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle): French national institute for industrial property and corporate registry operations; an adjacent public entity administering official business-related registries in France with overlapping data and government service functions to BODACC.
• Journal Officiel (DILA): DILA-operated portal that publishes legislative texts, parliamentary debates, and association announcements. Direct sibling service to BODACC under the same DILA organization with overlapping publication and legal-publicity mandates.
• Service-Public.fr: French government's main citizen-facing information portal; provides general administrative information and is part of the same DILA network that cross-links with BODACC for businesses and entrepreneurs.
• Légifrance: French government legal database operated by DILA covering codes, statutes, and jurisprudence; a broader sibling service under the same DILA umbrella, providing complementary official legal information across the French public administration.

Emerging players

• OpenCorporates: Private aggregator that ingests official company registry data from jurisdictions globally, including French sources, to provide a unified cross-border company-data platform. Comparable as a downstream consumer/aggregator of the same type of official business registry data BODACC publishes.

Direct peers

• UK Companies House: UK government registry publishing official company information and statutory filings; the international functional equivalent of BODACC for official business announcement publication in a different jurisdiction.
• BOAMP: Bulletin Officiel des Annonces de Marchés Publics, the official French public procurement bulletin also operated by DILA; functionally analogous to BODACC but for procurement announcements, making it the closest same-operator, same-publishing-mechanism peer.
• Infogreffe: Official French commercial court registry portal that publishes company registration data; a core co-founding partner of PPLE alongside BODACC and provides the upstream RNE data that BODACC publishes, making it the closest functional peer in the French business legal information ecosystem.
• Actulegales.fr (JAL): Network of Journaux d'Annonces Légales publishing legal gazette announcements that feed into the PPLE portal alongside BODACC. Provides the third pillar of official French business legal information alongside BODACC and Infogreffe.

Others

• PPLE (Portail de Publicité Légale des Entreprises): Aggregator portal grouping BODACC with RNE/Infogreffe and JAL data into a single access point. Not a competitor but an official integrated channel where BODACC data is consumed by end users.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance3 records

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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