Réunion legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.

Réunion is a French overseas department and region (département et région d'outre-mer) in the Indian Ocean and an outermost region of the European Union, so it is a civil-law jurisdiction governed by French national law under the principle of legislative identity (identité législative), subject to limited local adaptations. Primary legislation is enacted in Paris and published in the Journal officiel de la République française (JORF), with consolidated texts on Légifrance; locally, the Préfet de La Réunion issues prefectoral orders published in the Recueil des actes administratifs, and the Conseil départemental and Conseil régional adopt deliberations within their competences. The courts are part of the French judiciary — the Tribunal judiciaire and Cour d'appel de Saint-Denis for civil and criminal matters, the Tribunal administratif de Saint-Denis for administrative matters, with ultimate appeal to the Cour de cassation and the Conseil d'État. Legal materials are published in French, and EU law, including the GDPR, applies directly.

French law moves quickly, and because it applies in full in Réunion, changes made in Paris take effect locally: codes such as the Code civil and Code du travail are amended continuously, the loi and décret pipeline is constant, and EU-derived rules keep evolving — so citations to superseded provisions can simply be wrong. Point-in-time data straight from the official source is what keeps a Réunion legal research answer correct today.