France
For more details on this topic, see Religious freedom in France, Parliamentary Commission on Cults in France, MIVILUDES.In 1995, a parliamentary commission of the National Assembly of France on cults produced its report (in French: compare an unofficial English translation). The report included a list of purported cults compiled by the general information division of the French National Police (Renseignements généraux — a French police service) in association with cult-watching groups.
In May 2005 the then Prime Minister of France, in a circulaire (which stressed that the government must exercise vigilance in continuing the fight against the cult-phenomenon, said that the list of movements attached to the Parliamentary Report of 1995 had become less pertinent, based on the observation that many small groups had formed: scattered, more mobile, and less-easily identifiable, and that the government needed to balance its fight against cults with respect for public freedoms and laïcité (secularism). The Prime Minister asked his civil servants to update a number of ministerial instructions issued by previous commissions, to apply criteria set in consultation with the Interministerial Commission for Monitoring and Combating Cultic Deviances (MIVILUDES), and to avoid falling back solely on lists of groups for the identification of cultic deviances.
Subsequent French parliamentary commissions on cults reported on specific aspects of cult activity in 1999 and in 2006.
Read more about this topic: List Of Groups Referred To As Cults Or Sects In Government Documents
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