Without prejudice to their preservation on media placed under seal or appended to official reports, as evidence in the proceedings during which they were extracted, acquired or transmitted, the illicit content mentioned in 3° of the article 230-46 may be retained by the judicial police officers or agents mentioned in the first paragraph of this article, for a period of three months.
This storage is carried out under conditions guaranteeing the integrity and confidentiality of this content, making it inaccessible, in particular by electronic means of communication, to third parties other than the officers or agents of the judicial police mentioned in the first paragraph of Article 230-46 or who participate in investigations within the same service or unit, subject to the provisions of Article D. 47-2 and the possibility of transmitting such content to other officers or agents of the judicial police for the purposes of the proceedings for which they are responsible.
Before the expiry of this period, a copy of this content is sent to the Centre national d’analyse des images de pédopornographie.
At the end of this period, this content is destroyed, regardless of the storage medium that was used.