{
  "id": "fr-crpa",
  "name": "Code des relations entre le public et l'administration, Livre III",
  "short_name": "CRPA",
  "citation": "CRPA, Livre III (ex-loi n° 78-753 du 17 juillet 1978)",
  "jurisdiction": "foreign",
  "state": null,
  "state_name": null,
  "country": "France",
  "country_code": "FR",
  "url": "https://aletheca.com/laws/fr-crpa",
  "description": "France's access regime, codified in 2016 from the 1978 law. Applies to CNES and therefore to GEIPAN — though GEIPAN publishes its case base proactively, which usually makes a formal request unnecessary.",
  "statutory_days": 30,
  "business_days": false,
  "statutory_text": "One month's silence is an implicit refusal (décision implicite de rejet); there is no duty to answer sooner.",
  "appeal_deadline_days": 60,
  "appeal_basis": "two months from refusal to refer the matter to the CADA",
  "appeal_process": "Saisine of the CADA within two months of refusal — mandatory before litigation — then the tribunal administratif.",
  "litigation": "Tribunal administratif, after a CADA opinion.",
  "fee_waiver_standard": "Consultation is free; copies at cost.",
  "expedited_criteria": [],
  "exemptions": [
    "Secret de la défense nationale",
    "Sûreté de l'État",
    "Vie privée",
    "Secret des affaires"
  ],
  "portal": null,
  "turnaround_notes": "GEIPAN's published case base covers most sighting material; the CADA route matters only for what is not already online.",
  "quirks": "Documents already published fall outside the access procedure — and GEIPAN publishes. Defence-classified records need ministerial declassification first, which no CADA request can compel.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "Légifrance — Code des relations entre le public et l'administration",
      "url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGITEXT000031366350/",
      "status": "verified",
      "checked_at": "2026-08-31"
    }
  ],
  "text": null,
  "text_note": null,
  "agencies": [
    {
      "slug": "fr-geipan",
      "name": "GEIPAN — Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Study and Information Group (CNES)",
      "local_name": "Groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés",
      "abbr": "GEIPAN",
      "jurisdiction": "foreign",
      "state": null,
      "state_name": null,
      "country": "France",
      "country_code": "FR",
      "category": "space",
      "agency_type": "study_group",
      "parent": null,
      "parent_name": "CNES — Centre national d'études spatiales",
      "url": "https://aletheca.com/agencies/fr-geipan",
      "website": "https://www.cnes-geipan.fr",
      "reading_room": "https://www.cnes-geipan.fr",
      "subject_to_foia": true,
      "law": {
        "id": "fr-crpa",
        "citation": "CRPA, Livre III (ex-loi n° 78-753 du 17 juillet 1978)",
        "statutory_days": 30,
        "business_days": false,
        "appeal_deadline_days": 60
      },
      "intake": [
        {
          "channel": "portal",
          "detail": "https://www.cnes-geipan.fr",
          "label": "Case search and sighting questionnaire",
          "verified": true,
          "verification": "verified",
          "verification_source": null,
          "last_checked": null,
          "automatable": false,
          "preferred": false,
          "reliability": null,
          "instructions": null
        }
      ],
      "submission_readiness": null,
      "holdings": [
        "The public case base — sightings since 1937, each classified A/B/C/D by residual strangeness after investigation",
        "Witness questionnaires, gendarmerie reports and analysis notes (anonymised)",
        "Predecessor files: GEPAN (1977–88) and SEPRA (1988–2004)"
      ],
      "tips": [
        "A formal request is usually unnecessary — GEIPAN publishes its case base proactively; search it before invoking the CRPA at all.",
        "For what is not published (raw witness identities, defence-classified material), the CADA route applies to CNES as to any French public body."
      ],
      "tracking": null,
      "confidence": "high",
      "source": "Hand-compiled international layer. Bodies and statutes are real; contact routes are inferred unless marked verified, and none has yet been proven by a delivered letter."
    }
  ]
}