For the application of the provisions of Article 64-1 relating to the audiovisual recording of the questioning of a person held in police custody for a crime, account shall be taken of the nature of the offence of which that person is informed in accordance with the provisions of the first paragraph of article 63-1, without prejudice to a new characterisation of the facts at any time during the proceedings by the judicial police officer, the public prosecutor or the examining magistrate.
The original recording is placed under closed seal and a copy is placed in the file. This copy may be common to all recordings made during the proceedings. On the instructions of the public prosecutor or the public prosecutor, they shall be destroyed by the court registry within the period provided for in the fourth paragraph of Article 64-1.
A copy of the recording may be kept by the criminal investigation department or unit in charge of the proceedings, which may consult it for the purposes of investigations. This copy is destroyed no later than five years after the last procedural act drawn up by the investigators.
The technical details of the audiovisual recording are determined by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Interior.