Officers of the judicial police or, under their responsibility, officers of the judicial police may, in the course of a search carried out under the conditions provided for in this code, access via a computer system located on the premises where the search is taking place data relevant to the investigation in progress and stored in the said system or in another computer system, provided that such data is accessible from the initial system or available to the initial system.
They may also, under the conditions of search provided for in this code, access via a computer system located on the premises of a police or gendarmerie department or unit data relevant to the current investigation and stored in another computer system, if such data is accessible from the initial system.
If it is established beforehand that such data, accessible from the initial system or available to the initial system, is stored in another computer system located outside national territory, it shall be collected by the criminal investigation police officer, subject to the conditions of access provided for by the international commitments in force.
Data to which access has been granted under the conditions provided for by this article may be copied onto any medium. Computer storage media may be seized and placed under seal in accordance with the conditions laid down in this code.
Officers of the judicial police or, under their supervision, officers of the judicial police may, by any means, request any person likely:
1° To have knowledge of the measures applied to protect the data to which access is permitted in the context of the search;
2° To provide them with the information enabling access to the data mentioned in 1°.
With the exception of the persons mentioned in Articles 56-1 to 56-5, failure to respond as soon as possible to this requisition is punishable by a fine of €3,750.