Competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers may be assisted in their inspections by:
1° State civil servants and contractual agents governed by the décret n° 86-83 du 17 janvier 1986 relatif aux dispositions générales applicables aux agents contractuels de l’Etat who are assigned to one of the following directorates:
a) the Directorate-General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control;
> b) a regional directorate of the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industry; and
b) a regional directorate for the economy, employment, labour and solidarity;
> c) a departmental inter-ministerial directorate;
d) a regional directorate for the economy, employment, labour and solidarity
c) an interdepartmental departmental directorate responsible for population protection;
d) a directorate for the economy, employment, labour and solidarity;
> e) a directorate for social cohesion
e) a department for social cohesion, work, employment and the population;
2° Any trainee civil servant working in one of the directorates mentioned in 1°.
The civil servants and contract staff mentioned in this article may not carry out any act of criminal procedure or administrative policing and are required not to divulge any information of which they have become aware in the course of investigations.