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Two services repeating the same document are not two independent pieces of evidence. Compare the research object, data origin and period first.
| Compare sources | Annuaire des Entreprises | DATA INPI | BODACC |
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| What this source helps you find | Find a French entity by name, SIREN or SIRET and compare administrative records. | Consult France’s national business register data, trademarks, patents and designs. | Search French civil and commercial notices by company, SIREN, category and publication date. |
| Limit to retain in your conclusion | This is an aggregator: check dates and the original register before drawing conclusions. | Read each registration or filing with its status, date and protection scope. | A notice records a published event; it does not describe the entity’s entire current activity. |
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| Evidence record to retain | SIREN, relevant SIRET, cited field, named producer, URL and access date. | Identifier, document type, named holder, date and downloaded version. | SIREN, notice category and number, bulletin series and number, publication date, recorded event and exact notice link. |
| Check before drawing a conclusion | Open the field’s source; two aggregators using one register are not two confirmations. | Distinguish an RNE certificate, company document and industrial-property right before citing. | Publication records a formal event; it does not alone describe the company’s current position. |
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| Official reference page | Official reference page | Official reference page | Official reference page |
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Identify the producer of the underlying document. A portal, API and search engine may distribute the same data. To confirm a fact, seek a document with a different origin; to check a transcription, compare the original with its reuse.
The consultation date does not replace the effective, publication or acquisition date. A current and an archived result may both be correct for different periods. Record the status and version of each document.
Keep the query, name variants and filters. No result may reflect limited coverage, a delay, restrictive searching or a wrong identifier. It does not establish that a fact does not exist.
