French Code of Criminal Procedure
In forceThe automated national criminal records department, as soon as it is notified, shall record on the records the particulars prescribed in articles 769 and 769-1.
The notice intended for the automated national criminal record service is drawn up and, subject to the provisions of the last paragraph, sent:
1° For pardons, commutations or reductions of sentences resulting from a decree of individual pardon, by the Minister of Justice; for those resulting from a decree of collective pardons, by the public prosecutor where convicted persons are not incarcerated ;
2° For decisions suspending or ordering the enforcement of a sentence, by the court registry or by the authority that handed down the decision;
3° For decisions granting a pardon, by the court registry of the court that handed down the decision ;
4° For decisions revoking deportation orders, by the Minister of the Interior;
5° For dates of expiry of custodial sentences and enforcement of judicial restraints, by the heads of prisons ;
6° For the payment of fines by the accountants of the Directorate General of Public Finance;
7° For decisions handing down a sentence or dispensing with a sentence after postponement of sentencing, by the clerk of the court that handed down the decision;
8° For decisions taken in application of the articles 132-21 of the Criminal Code, 702-1,775-1and 777-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, by the clerk of the court that ruled;
9° For decisions referred to in Article 768 5°, by the clerk of the court that made the decision after endorsement by the public prosecutor;
10° For decisions on conditional release or revocation of conditional release, by the clerk of the enforcement court that made the decision.
These notices are sent as soon as possible to the automated national criminal records department. They may be sent in the form of a magnetic medium or by secure electronic means. The notices mentioned in 2°, 3°, 7°, 8°, 9° and 10° are sent through the intermediary of the public prosecutor.
