Question 11729 — marital status

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Mr. Jean-Didier Berger draws the attention of the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, to the territorial consequences of the current birth registration system. Pursuant to article 55 of the civil code, births are declared to the registrar of the place of birth. In a context of concentration of maternities, this rule leads to almost all births being recorded in a number limited number of hospital-based municipalities, while many residential municipalities, sometimes experiencing strong demographic growth, no longer see or hardly any births recorded on their registers. Beyond the legal aspect, this situation nourishes a feeling of symbolic erasure for municipalities where families live, work, educate their children and get involved locally, without this anchoring appearing in the birth certificates. At the same time, the dematerialization of civil status and the security of exchanges between administrations now offer tools that would make it possible to better involve the municipality of residence in birth registration. He recalls that a bill adopted by the Senate aims to offer parents the possibility of choosing between the place of birth and the municipality of residence for the declaration of birth, without calling into question the requirements of legal certainty of acts. He would like to know the Government's position on this development of the law and asks if it intends, on the one hand, to encourage the inclusion of this proposed law on the agenda of the National Assembly at an early date and, on the other hand, to study, if necessary, complementary solutions, such as the systematic transcription of acts of birth in the municipality of residence of the parents, in order to better involve municipalities without maternity wards in the holding of acts concerning their inhabitants.

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