France Driving Licence Renewal or Duplicate (Cerfa 14882*01, Permis de conduire — renouvellement, duplicata ou catégorie AM)

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-03

The document was derived from the publisher's own live process guidance and the official Cerfa form's printed field set, but the online submission channel that now processes the majority of these requests (ANTS's permisdeconduire.ants.gouv.fr service) sits behind a FranceConnect/ANTS account login this review could not reach — so the practice's field-by-field comparison against a live screen set has not been completed. It therefore remains draft, not verified.

Sources examined

• Document (id, version): fr/ants/driving-licence-renewal-duplicate / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
• Authority: Agence Nationale des Titres Sécurisés (ANTS), the operator of the online request-and-manufacturing system, under the Ministère de l'Intérieur et des Outre-mer. Requests are lodged either online via ANTS or, as a fallback, on paper at a préfecture/sous-préfecture — the Cerfa this schema is sourced from is that paper fallback's own form.
• Process guidance (fetched live, 2026-07-03, HTTP 200):
  • https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1727 — "Perte du permis de conduire français". Confirms the online loss-declaration-plus-replacement-request flow via ANTS, the digital tax stamp fee (25 €), the required documents (photo-signature, identity proof, proof of address <6 months, avis médical for categories C/D only), and the distinct process for applicants normally resident abroad.
  • https://www.securite-routiere.gouv.fr/passer-son-permis-de-conduire/demande-du-titre-du-permis-de-conduire/perte-vol-ou-deterioration-0-1 and its theft-specific sibling page — confirm the loss-vs-theft procedural split: a loss declaration is filed together with the replacement request on ANTS; a theft declaration can only be made in person at a police station or gendarmerie, which issues a receipt valid to drive in France for 2 months while the replacement request is filed.
  • https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/R42947 — the renewal-for-expiry guidance, confirming "expiration de la durée de validité du titre" as a distinct request reason from loss/theft/damage.
• Primary form source: Cerfa **14882\*01**, "Demande de renouvellement de permis de conduire, de duplicata ou de catégorie AM après annulation, suspension ou invalidation" (Art. R. 211-1, R. 221-1, R. 221-4 du Code de la route; Art. 8 de l'arrêté du 20 avril 2012 modifié). Retrieved from the Hérault préfecture's own official government subdomain (herault.gouv.fr/content/download/.../Cefa 14882-01 + verso - Octobre 2013.pdf) after the national formulaires.service-public.gouv.fr catalog entry and the Paris préfecture-de-police copy both returned client-side JS redirect shells this sandbox could not follow. A direct .gouv.fr source, not a third-party mirror. The same Cerfa reference number (14882\01) is independently confirmed current in 2026 by multiple third-party legal/administrative sites (droitissimo.com, ornikar.com, vos-demarches.com), none of which describe a superseding edition.
• PDF extraction method: the retrieved PDF (2 pages) has an actual text layer — pdfjs-dist's getTextContent() returned the full printed text of both pages directly — unlike several other FR Cerfa forms already in this registry that are scanned images with no text layer at all (e.g. the sibling fr/ants/national-identity-card-application-first-adult schema). getAnnotations() returned zero AcroForm/XFA widgets per page: this is a print-and-fill form (text-searchable, but not fillable), a sixth distinct PDF shape encountered in this registry (after the no-text/no-AcroForm scanned case, the dynamic-XFA case, the has-AcroForm-shell-but-empty-Fields case, the AcroForm-overlay-added-by-a-third-party-site case, and the plain-scanned-image-with-no-text-layer case) — text layer present, no widget layer.
• What the extracted text shows, verbatim structure:
  • Page 1: a shared état-civil header (birth family name, given names, date of birth, mobile phone, sex, place of birth commune/country/département, home address block, email, usage name) identical in field order to the sibling CNI/passport Cerfa header block from the same ministry; a six-option "À la suite de" request-reason checklist (theft, damage, non-receipt, loss, expiry, civil/marital-status change); a RENOUVELLEMENT / DUPLICATA / CATÉGORIE AM procedure-type selector with a footnote restricting DUPLICATA to heavy-category (C/C1/C1E/CE/D/D1/D1E/DE) holders replacing a lost, stolen, or damaged title; two 14-option category checklists (categories held, categories requested); an office-reserved NEHP number and issue date/place field (not modelled — filled by the administration, not the applicant); the applicant's attestation and declaration place/date; a delivery-method choice (postal, which requires an in-person counter deposit of the current title, or counter pickup); a personal-data-reuse opt-out; and a legal-representative block (single "Je soussigné(e) ... né(e) le ... demeurant à ..." attestation line, not separate name-field boxes) for a non-emancipated minor applicant.
  • Page 2: a "pièces à fournir" (documents to provide) checklist specific to the duplicata pathway, dated October 2013, from the Hérault préfecture: this Cerfa itself plus a compliant photo; a loss-declaration receipt (obtainable only in person at specific préfecture/sous-préfecture counters per that 2013 guidance — since superseded by the online ANTS loss-declaration flow, per F1727) or a police/gendarmerie theft declaration; the original document for a civil-status-change or damage request; a separate photo-signature Cerfa 14948\*01; two photocopies of an identity document; and two photocopies of a proof of address. This 2013 checklist is treated here as historical/supplementary context for the damage/civil-status-change document requirement (not otherwise stated on the current online-process pages), while the current fee, photo, identity-proof, address-proof, and medical-certificate requirements are sourced to the 2026-fetched service-public.gouv.fr and securite-routiere.gouv.fr pages instead, since those postdate the 2013 paper checklist and describe today's ANTS-centred process.
• Interpretation calls:
  • sex is modelled required: true and mobilePhone/email are modelled required: false ("Recommandé"), matching the sibling CNI schema's identical header block — the extracted flat text does not preserve the original page layout precisely enough to confirm which element the "(Recommandé)" annotation is bound to, so this is a plausible reading by analogy to the same ministry's other Cerfa in this registry, not a directly confirmed layout.
  • categoriesHeld/categoriesRequested are modelled as delimited strings, not a repeating/array value: GovSchema v0.3 has no native multi-select field type (GSP-0009, composite/repeating values, has not been folded into the accepted spec). Flagged as a known modelling gap rather than silently forcing an unsupported shape.
  • involvesHeavyVehicleCategory is asked as its own direct boolean field rather than derived by parsing the category strings, for the same reason the sibling sg/spf/driving-licence-application schema asked isApplyingForMotorcycleClass directly instead of inferring it from a category code — avoids asserting an unsourced parsing/mapping rule.
  • procedureType's DUPLICATA eligibility restriction (footnote 1) is documented in the field's own description but not enforced by a requiredWhen/crossFieldValidation rule, since evaluating it requires testing category-code membership inside the delimited categoriesHeld string — outside what the condition grammar's equals/in/comparison operators can express against a single scalar field.
  • The office-reserved "Numéro NEHP" and "Date et lieu de délivrance du titre" line is not modelled as an applicant-facing field: it immediately follows the form's own "(Réservé à l'administration)" annotation on the NEHP number, and its position and context (before the applicant's own attestation/signature line) reads as an office-completed pair, not an applicant entry — flagged here as an interpretation, not a confirmed widget behaviour (this Cerfa has no widget metadata at all, see above).
  • legalRepFullName is modelled as one field (not split into family/given name) since the source's legal-representative block gives a single "Je soussigné(e)" attestation line, unlike the applicant's own name fields which have separate labelled boxes earlier on the same page.
• Live online channel identified but not reached: ANTS's permisdeconduire.ants.gouv.fr requires an authenticated account this review could not reach, so the field-by-field comparison the practice requires has not been completed against that live screen set.

Test run (mock data)

A mock scenario — an adult applicant in metropolitan France requesting a DUPLICATA after losing a category B licence, with no legal representative and no heavy-vehicle category — was run against this schema version's required/requiredWhen/visibleWhen gating logic with a standalone validator script (not committed — ad hoc, mirrors the checks tools/validate.mjs and tools/validate-ajv.mjs already run structurally) before publishing. Committed as this version's conformance/.../application-packet.json fixture:

1. With requestReason: loss, involvesHeavyVehicleCategory: false, and hasLegalRepresentative: false — confirms lossOrTheftDeclaration is correctly required, medicalCertificate and all legalRep* fields are correctly not required, and damagedOrPriorLicence is correctly not required.
2. A second pass with requestReason: theft in place of loss (not committed as a fixture, this registry's convention is a single application-packet.json per schema version) confirmed lossOrTheftDeclaration's requiredWhen (in: [loss, theft]) fires identically for both reasons, rather than only matching an equals: loss check.
3. A third pass with involvesHeavyVehicleCategory: true confirmed medicalCertificate becomes required, and reverting it to false made the requirement correctly disappear again.

Both tools/validate.mjs (structural) and tools/validate-ajv.mjs (full JSON Schema 2020-12 meta-schema, ajv) pass for this document.

Scope

Out of scope for this version: the ANTS online portal's own screen-by-screen flow (not reached, see above); the DUPLICATA category-eligibility restriction as an enforced cross-field rule (documented but not validated, see above); and the process for an applicant normally resident outside France, which F1727 describes as materially different (embassy/consulate-certified declaration, translated by an approved translator) and does not model here.