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To keep a record of the government’s work, the government’s general secretariat, through its documentation service, processes a huge volume of information, which, thanks to modern technology, can be stored and retrieved increasingly rapidly. This includes not only interministerial projects carried out by the prime minister’s cabinet, but also laws and regulations in effect, as well as preparatory documents which must be accounted for at any time and in all areas of activity. Public authorities have continued to explore new ways of facilitating citizens’ access to public records that are not classified as secret: administrative and jurisdictional data banks, dissemination hosts, and telematics services.