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Article L8113-5-1 of the French Labour Code

For the purposes of investigating and establishing the offences constituting illegal employment referred to in Article L. 8211-1, the inspection officers defined by regulation may, during their visits, obtain any accounting or professional document or any other piece of information likely to facilitate the performance of their duties. They may also take an immediate copy, by any means and on any medium.

For the communication of computerised data, they have access to software and stored data as well as to the unencrypted reproduction of information likely to facilitate the performance of their duties. They may ask for the data to be transcribed by any appropriate process into documents that can be used directly for the purposes of the audit.

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Article L8113-5-1

Pour la recherche et la constatation des infractions constitutives de travail illégal mentionnées à l’article L. 8211-1, les agents de contrôle définis par voie règlementaire peuvent obtenir, au cours de leurs visites, communication de tout document comptable ou professionnel ou tout autre élément d’information propre à faciliter l’accomplissement de leur mission. Ils peuvent également en prendre copie immédiate, par tout moyen et sur tout support.

Pour la communication des données informatisées, ils ont accès aux logiciels et aux données stockées ainsi qu’à la restitution en clair des informations propres à faciliter l’accomplissement de leur mission. Ils peuvent en demander la transcription par tout traitement approprié en des documents directement utilisables pour les besoins du contrôle.

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