Abstract
Undoubtedly, the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Ana Ionita v. Romania of March 21st 2017 marked the beginning of the creation of a European status for notaries. The European judge quite clearly called the notary an “out-of-court magistrate”. As a result, notaries are aligned with other judicial professions, yet their special status is recognised. This European recognition influences the notaries’ right to freedom of expression which is at issue in this case, but it equally serves to underline the incongruity of the egregious “interprofessionality” swept in by the so-called “Macron’s law”, which implies that conformity to the European Convention of Human Rights is now called into question.