For reports submitted in paper form by traditional mail, postal delivery and processing at the statistics bureau will cause an additional delay before the data are recorded.
[2] Until 2017, access to the central death register was available only to certain commercial genealogy services, which Insee charged about 7,000 euros per year.
Access subsequently became free of charge, but remained restricted to authorized companies bound by a licensing agreement with Insee.
[1][3] However, on 17 May 2019, the French state's commission in charge of questions related to freedom of information and access to official data, CADA (Commission d'accès aux documents administratifs), decided at the request of a genealogical association that the central death register must immediately be made publicly accessible.
[1][2] Neither of the two sites offers search and display functionality for the data, and the Insee encoding of places is not resolved.