Rights and procedures

Service Public, the official website of the French administration, celebrates its 25th anniversary

Publié le 07 octobre 2025 - Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

The official website of the French administration, Public Service, celebrates its 25the birthday. Change of graphic identity, new url... The aim is to simplify users' access to information and administrative procedures.

On the occasion of its 25e On its anniversary, the official website Service Public brings together its information and services offering around a new visual identity and a unique brand. His address becomes: service-public.gouv.fr.

These developments are part of a desire to create a " Public Service reflex at the user’s home. They must be able to quickly access free legal and administrative information, with the guarantee of being on a safe trusted website.

Verified and updated information

Would you like to know what housing assistance you are entitled to, know the price of the car you have just bought, have a list of documents to provide to redo your passport, view all the administrative procedures of your departure abroad?

In a changing digital context, identify a official source is secure and helps prevent scams and false information. The site service-public.gouv.fr is the official point of entry for all information on rights and administrative procedures :

  • inform users (individuals, professionals, local authorities) about their rights and obligations;
  • it refers them to the competent services to exercise their rights and carry out their procedures.

Why go to Public Service?

On the Public Service website, you will find:

  • Practical information sheets accessible by theme (work, family, housing, etc.) or by life event (I buy a home, I go abroad, a loved one has died, etc.), personalized through questionnaires.
  • News to keep abreast of legislative and regulatory developments and new online services, with the sending of a free weekly newsletter.
  • Access to the various online procedures, administrative forms (cerfas), letter templates and simulators.
  • A geolocation of local services (France Services, Justice Points, etc.).
  • One directory referring to national public administrations and services (institutions and courts, ministries, independent authorities, embassies, etc.) and local authorities (town halls, prefectures, primary health insurance funds, courts, France services, etc.);
  • A service of messaging to be helped in the search for information and the completion of the procedures.
  • A telephone service of administrative intelligence: Allô Service Public 3939.
  • Information accessible via its social networks (Facebook, X, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube).
  • A website dedicated to companies' procedures: enterprise.service-public.gouv.fr
  • Tools adapted to administrative caregivers to support audiences far from digital.

Please note

You can now bookmark the new Public Service address: https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/

Old URLs will be automatically redirected.

FYI  

The Public Service brand is issued by the Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (DILA), which is placed under the authority of the General Secretariat of the Government. Its mission is the legal dissemination of information and as such manages the following sites:

It is also a public publisher with the brand La Documentation française.

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