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Formalities
Discover the 2026 price list of legal announcements!
Publié le 30 décembre 2025 - Entreprendre Public Service / Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
The flat rates and the nature of legal and judicial announcements are updated at 1er January 2026.
The new character rates in 2026
As a reminder, when flat-rate pricing is not provided, the price of the legal advertisement depends on its length.
The price is here set according to the number of characters of the ad. The total number of characters in the ad, including spaces, must be multiplied by the price of the character. This type of pricing applies in particular to the legal announcement relating to the formation of a limited partnership (SCA) or a limited partnership (SCS).
This rate varies depending on the department in which the business' headquarters is located.
The rates are as follows for 2026:
Departments | HT Character Rate |
|---|---|
02 Aisne 07 Ardèche 08 Ardennes 26 Drôme 38 Isère 60 Oise 69 Rhone 80 Sum 89 Yonne | €0.195 |
Eure 27 76 Seine-Maritime | €0.206 |
59 North 62 Pas-de-Calais 77 Seine-et-Marne 78 Yvelines 91 Essonne 95 Val-d'Oise | €0.227 |
75 Paris 92 Hauts-de-Seine 93 Seine Saint Denis 94 Val-de-Marne | €0.239 |
971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €0.185 |
974 The Meeting 976 Mayotte | €0.210 |
Other departments | €0.189 |
2026 flat rates of a legal announcement
Reminder
Since 2024, the flat rate in force in metropolitan France also applies to Guadeloupe, the Martinique, the French Guiana, Saint Bartholomew, Saint Martin and Wallis and Futuna.
The flat rates for a legal announcement relating to the creation of a business change for 2026. These rates vary depending on the legal form of the business and the department where the advertisement is published.
Thus, for the year 2026, the flat rates for legal announcements are arranged as follows:
Departments | Limited company (SA) | Simplified Joint Stock Company (SAS) | Single Person Simplified Joint Stock Company (SASU) | General Partnership (SNC) | Limited liability company (SARL) | Single-person limited liability company (EURL) | Civil business (except ICS) | Real Estate Civil Society (SCI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €399 | €199 | €142 | €220 | €148 | €124 | €222 | €191 |
974 The Meeting 976 Mayotte | €466 | €233 | €167 | €259 | €173 | €147 | €263 | €223 |
Departments | Deed of appointment of liquidators | Notice of termination of liquidation | Legal notices relating to judgments opening collective proceedings | Legal notices relating to judgments closing collective proceedings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €153 | €111 | €66 | €36 |
974 The Meeting 976 Mayotte | €181 | €129 | €78 | €42 |
New Application of the flat rate for other legal announcements
Since 1er January 2024, flat-rate pricing is provided for certain legal announcements.
Thus, a flat rate applies to legal announcements relating to:
- the appointment and termination of the duties of the External Auditor for Commercial businesses and Civil businesses;
- changes in the length of commercial businesses and civil businesses;
- the transfer of the registered office of the commercial businesses, the European businesses and the planned civil businesses;
- the appointment and termination of office of the directors and other persons responsible for controlling commercial businesses and civil businesses.
For these legal announcements, the flat rate is as follows:
Departments | Flat rate excluding tax |
|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €109 |
974 The Meeting 976 Mayotte | €126 |
A flat rate also applies to legal notices relating to:
- the change in the corporate purpose of commercial businesses and civil businesses;
- the appointment of the insolvency administrator for commercial businesses and civil businesses;
- the modification of the share capital of commercial businesses and civil businesses.
For these legal announcements, the flat rate is as follows:
Departments | Flat rate excluding tax |
|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €136 |
974 The Meeting 976 Mayotte | €158 |
The flat rate also applies to legal notices relating to:
- the transformation of the social shape of commercial businesses and civil businesses, the transformation of public limited companies into European businesses and the transformation of European businesses into public limited companies;
- movements of business business partners, civil businesses and lawyers' associations;
- the change of the corporate name (or acronym) of the commercial businesses and civil businesses.
Regarding these legal announcements, the flat rate is as follows:
Departments | Flat rate excluding tax |
|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €199 |
974 The Meeting 976 Mayotte | €229 |
Finally, for LLCs and for share businesses, the flat rate applies to legal announcements relating to non-dissolution following the finding that the business' equity becomes less than half of the share capital.
The flat rate applied here is as follows:
Departments | Flat rate excluding tax |
|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €83 |
974 The Meeting 976 Mayotte | €93 |
FYI
For these legal ads, the price will be per character if the company wishes to publish an ad with several changes.