French Code of Criminal Procedure
In forceThe information contained in the file shall be directly accessible, via a secure electronic communications system:
1° To the judicial authorities;
2° To criminal investigation officers, in the context of proceedings concerning one of the offences provided for in articles 421-1 to 421-6 of the Criminal Code or articles L. 224-1 and L. 225-7 of the Internal Security Code, and for the exercise of the due diligence provided for in articles 706-25-7,706-25-8 and 706-25-10 of this code. Judicial police officers may also, on the instructions of the public prosecutor or investigating judge or with the authorisation of one of these magistrates, consult the file as part of an investigation in flagrante delicto or a preliminary investigation or in execution of a letter rogatory;
3° To representatives of the State in the department and to State administrations, the list of which is determined by the decree provided for in article 706-25-14, for administrative decisions on recruitment, assignment, authorisation, approval or authorisation ;
4° To prison registry officers authorised by the heads of prisons, to check that the person has been the subject of the information referred to in Article 706-25-8 and to record the dates of committal and release as well as the address of the home declared by the person released, as well as to individually designated and authorised officers of the prison intelligence office of the prison administration directorate ;
5° To individually designated and authorised agents of the services mentioned in article L. 811-2 of the Internal Security Code and the departments designated by the Conseil d'Etat decree provided for in article L. 811-4 of the same code for the sole purpose of preventing terrorism;
6° To agents of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs authorised to carry out the duties of article 706-25-7 of this code.
The authorities and persons mentioned in 1° and 2° and 4° to 6° of this article may query the file on the basis of one or more criteria set by the decree provided for in article 706-25-14, and in particular on the basis of a person's identity, successive addresses or the nature of the offences.
The persons mentioned in 3° of this article may only consult the file on the basis of the identity of the person concerned by the administrative decision.
Mayors and presidents of local authorities and groups of local authorities shall also receive, via the representatives of the State in the department, the information contained in the file for the administrative decisions mentioned in the same 3°.
At the end of the periods provided for in article 706-25-7, the information contained in the file may only be consulted by the service managing the file, the judicial authorities, the judicial police officers referred to in 2° of this article and the individually designated and authorised agents of the services referred to in 5°.
