Loi pour une République numérique

loi numérique) is a French law first proposed by Axelle Lemaire, Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, voted on 7 October 2016.

The discussion began with an online public consultation, until 18 October 2015, then, enriched with some proposals from Internet users, the law was debated and voted in the National Assembly from 19 to 26 January 2016.

[11] Article 16 of the law provides for the encouragement of the use of free software and open formats in public administration information systems, in order to preserve their control, durability and independence.

[15] A compromise amendment has been accepted, but does not satisfy all the demands of those in favour of freedom of panorama, in particular because it only allows strictly non-commercial use,[16] which is difficult to define on the Internet.

Network operators will be encouraged to develop their investments where the needs are greatest, through the prolongation and extension of the scope of over-damping to the deployment of fibre in rural areas.

[23] An amendment[24] in favour of a sovereign OS was also adopted, which provoked rather negative reactions, notably from ANSSI,[25] due to the possible lack of realism of the proposal and of already existing solutions, such as the secure operating system CLIP, based on Linux.

376, adding an article 23 bis and ter making anyone renting their property on a platform such as Airbnb without the written permission of its owner [33] liable to imprisonment, heavy fines and even eviction from their home.

[35] In January 2016, Prime Minister Manuel Valls entrusted two MPs, Rudy Salles and Jérôme Durain, with the task of "defining a legislative and regulatory framework to promote the development of video game competitions in France" to the French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs and Innovation, Axelle Lemaire.

[36] The report submitted in March 2016 by the two parliamentarians led to participation in the bill for a digital Republic,[37] which in its chapter 4 section 2 recognizes the practice of video games in competition in France, as well as an official status for professional players.