No interconnection within the meaning of the 3° of I of Article 33 of Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms may be made between the automated national criminal record and any other file or processing of personal data held by any person or by a State department not under the authority of the Ministry of Justice.
By way of derogation from the first paragraph, the national criminal record may receive data from a personal data file or processing system held by a government department in order to carry out the procedures provided for in this Title.
Under conditions specified, on the one hand, by the decree in Council of State provided for in Article 779 and, on the other hand, where applicable, by the acts creating or authorising the processing concerned, it may also be interconnected with:
the centralised European data processing called “ECRIS-TCN”;
the automated fingerprint file;
the processing necessary for the application of Regulation (EU) 2019/816 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 and Council Framework Decision 2009/315/JHA of 26 February 2009 as amended by Directive (EU) 2019/884 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 and the list of which is set by the Decree in Council of State provided for in Article 779.
No file or processing of personal data held by any person whatsoever or by a State department not dependent on the Ministry of Justice may mention, except in the cases and under the conditions provided for by law, judgments or rulings of conviction.
However, a criminal conviction may always be invoked in court by the victim of the offence.
Any breach of the foregoing provisions will be punishable by the penalties incurred for the offence provided for in article 226-21 du code pénal.