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Charte d'utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle au sein de la juridiction administrative

Conseil d'État (Council of State), France

last revised 2025-12-11last verified 2026-09-041 versioncountry page →

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A deontological charter published on 11 December 2025 binding every member, magistrate and staff member of the French administrative jurisdiction — Conseil d'État, cours administratives d'appel, tribunaux administratifs, Cour nationale du droit d'asile and Tribunal du stationnement payant. It sets seven principles for generative AI, excludes high-risk AI systems, and covers external chatbots, which are not blocked but tightly conditioned.

Applies to
judges, court-staff
Effective
See version history
Current version
First version · 11 Dec 2025
Last verified
04 Sept 2026
Official text
www.conseil-etat.fr/Media/actualites/documents/2025/decembre-2025/char…

What the document requires

  • 'L'IA est un outil qui jamais ne décide': AI may not interpret a rule of law or case law, establish or assess facts, apply law to a case, reason legally or propose an outcome.
  • Human verification is systematic — AI output, especially legal and case-law references, must never be assumed true or complete and must be checkable by another means.
  • Users adopt AI-generated content as their own and cannot 'se défausser sur l'IA' for errors or omissions.
  • Give up using external AI where data security and confidentiality cannot be assured: entering information into a public chatbot 'équivaut à la publier sur internet'.
  • Users must guard against anchoring, confirmation, training and discriminatory bias, and weigh the environmental cost of each prompt.
  • The charter covers only limited-risk AI under the AI Act; high-risk judicial AI (Annex III point 8(a)) is excluded.

Version history

VersionDateWhat changedSource
First versioncurrent2025-12-11Initial charter, adopted after consultation with staff, unions and elected representatives and reviewed by the collège de déontologie.official

Sources

Cite this record

SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Charte d'utilisation de l'intelligence artificielle au sein de la juridiction administrative" (Conseil d'État (Council of State), France, First version, 2025-12-11), safelegalai.com/regulation/other/fr-conseil-etat-charte-ia-juridiction-administrative (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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