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This paper deals with the implementation of Eurocode 7 in French practice by means of national additional standards. The architecture of French geotechnical design standards is presented. In particular, principles of safety management and of determination of characteristic value are explained. Then, for each geotechnical structure type, the values of the partial factors used are summarized and the methodology of their calibration is briefly discussed.