Documentation mission
  CRIDON de Paris has a mission to provide documentation. This consists in supplying bibliographical references on a given theme and doing any useful research on behalf of the Notaries employed by member companies.
Notaries who have access to CRIDON de Paris' "20th Century Notarial Doctrine" database ("Doctrine du XXe siècle") can use this instrument to carry out direct research of this type.
In addition to the "Doctrine" database, CRIDON has 254 CD-ROMs and subscriptions to other on-line databases with which to conduct research in more depth and over a wider range of sources.
Specialised consultants are also entitled to receive a number of unpublished works that can sometimes be a useful source of further information.
Copyright laws protecting text and artwork forbid unauthorised photocopying.
Consequently CRIDON de Paris is not entitled to send photocopies of references taken from a treatise or a law magazine. This type of photocopying does not fall within the scope of the waiver granted in France for "private use by the copier". It is by no means certain that an agreement with the French photocopying authority ("Centre français de copie") would enable the setting up of a system with the sole purpose of authorising photocopies of works on law.
CD-ROM library
CRIDON de Paris also has a large collection of paper documents including 20,000 specialised books, 173 subscriptions to legal reviews, and 180 periodicals.
It also has a collection of CD-ROMs (254 including two French National Library catalogues, 3,300,000 references dating from before 1970 and 1,100,000 references after 1970).
Finally it has access to 35 on-line databases.
Data calculated during the 2007 fiscal year
Internal databases
  CRIDON de Paris has two internal databases:
 
• "Consultation" database
• "Committee" database
The "Consultation" database has recorded some 51,000 consultations sent to Notaries at member companies.
The "Committee" database contains 2,500 files. Each usually contains the initial query, the report by the consultant who dealt with the case, the solution adopted by the Committee and its observations and the consultation sent to the enquirer. It should be noted that the consultation record does not necessarily include all the observations made by the Consultation Committee when these fall partially outside the scope of the query.
Data calculated during the 2007 fiscal year