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Article R2314-17 of the French Labour Code

The employer or the service provider it has retained shall keep under seal, until the expiry of the appeal period and, where legal action has been taken, until the court decision has become final, the media files including the copy of source programmes and executable programmes, the voting materials, and the registration, results and back-up files. If necessary, it must be possible to carry out the vote-counting procedure again.

On expiry of the appeal period or, where legal action has been taken, after a court decision has become final, the employer or, where applicable, the service provider shall destroy the media files.

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Article R2314-17

L’employeur ou le prestataire qu’il a retenu conserve sous scellés, jusqu’à l’expiration du délai de recours et, lorsqu’une action contentieuse a été engagée, jusqu’à la décision juridictionnelle devenue définitive, les fichiers supports comprenant la copie des programmes sources et des programmes exécutables, les matériels de vote, les fichiers d’émargement, de résultats et de sauvegarde. La procédure de décompte des votes doit, si nécessaire, pouvoir être exécutée de nouveau.


A l’expiration du délai de recours ou, lorsqu’une action contentieuse a été engagée, après l’intervention d’une décision juridictionnelle devenue définitive, l’employeur ou, le cas échéant, le prestataire procède à la destruction des fichiers supports.

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