I. Is there a national act containing a legal definition of Automated Administrative Decisions?

There is no current national act containing a definition of automated administrative decisions in France. Nevertheless, several legal texts refer to this process, such as loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 sur l’informatique et les libertés (JO 7 janv. 1978) and loi n° 78-753 du 17 juillet 1978 sur l’accès aux documents administratifs (JO 18 juill. 1978), which both address automated processing. Moreover, both the Conseil National du Numérique and the Conseil d’État define an automated administrative decision as a series of computer operations, calculations and instructions performed on multiple data items with the aim of obtaining a result.