Until the expiry of the period for lodging an appeal or, where an appeal has been lodged, until all avenues of appeal have been exhausted, the media files, including copies of the source programmes and executable programmes, the voting materials, the count, results and back-up files and all the personal data recorded on the processing system provided for in Article R. 4031-21 shall be kept under seal, under the supervision of the National Commission. If necessary, it must be possible to carry out the vote-counting procedure again.
On expiry of the appeal period or, where legal proceedings have been instituted, after all legal remedies have been exhausted, unless criminal proceedings have been instituted within this period, these media and data shall be destroyed under the supervision of the National Commission.