Ministère de l'Intérieur et de la Décentralisation (Public Freedoms - associations and NGOs) (MID)

The Ministry of Interior and Decentralisation oversees associations and NGOs under its Public Freedoms portfolio. Under the 2021 associations law, associations acquire legal capacity by declaring themselves to the competent territorial authority and the ministry, which issues the receipt (récépissé). The 2021 law replaced the earlier prior-authorisation system with a declaration system.

An association needs at least five founding members pursuing a non-profit aim. According to a summary of the implementing rules, the declaration is filed online on a digital platform called Feddam, which acts as the local, regional and central register for associations at levels 1, 2 and 3 and automatically generates a filing certificate. The representative then presents the filing certificate and original documents to the competent territorial authority, which issues a platform-generated acknowledgment of receipt. If the declaration meets legal requirements, a final receipt is issued within a maximum of 60 days; otherwise a reasoned rejection is notified. Registration on the platform also transmits the file to the government department in charge of civil society. These procedural details come from a secondary summary, not from an official ministry page.