Book V: Enforcement procedures

If a French national has been convicted by a foreign court and this conviction appears on bulletin no. 1 of his criminal record, he may apply to the criminal court of his place of residence, or of Paris if he resides abroad, to have this entry removed. The application may only be brought before the competent court, on pain of inadmissibility, at the end of the periods provided for in…

The automated national criminal record also receives the convictions, decisions, judgments or orders referred to in Article 768 of this code, concerning persons born abroad and persons whose birth certificate cannot be found or whose identity is in doubt.

In application of Regulation (EU) 2019/816 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 and of Council Framework Decision 2009/315/JHA of 26 February 2009 as amended by Directive (EU) 2019/884 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019, the national criminal records department is competent to query, supply and update the centralised European data processing system known as “ECRIS-TCN”, which enables the…

For natural persons who have been convicted by a criminal court of a felony or a misdemeanour punishable by a prison sentence received in the criminal record pursuant to 1° and 8° of Article 768, including in the cases provided for in Article 771, the automated national criminal record registers and stores data relating to the simultaneous and rolled impressions of the fingerprints of each finger of these persons and…

The military authorities shall be notified, by sending a copy of the criminal record, of any convictions or decisions likely to alter the conditions of enlistment of individuals subject to compulsory military service. The same authorities shall also be notified of any changes made to the record or criminal record by virtue of articles 769 and 770.

The automated national criminal record communicates to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies the identity of persons who have been the subject of a decision resulting in the deprivation of their electoral rights.

A copy of each record of a custodial sentence handed down for a felony or misdemeanour is sent to the technical police record kept by the Minister of the Interior. Consultation of this file is reserved exclusively for the judicial authorities and the police and gendarmerie services. Convictions erased by amnesty or automatic or judicial rehabilitation cease to appear in the technical police record.

The full list of criminal record entries applicable to the same person is recorded on a bulletin known as bulletin no. 1. Bulletin no. 1 is only issued to the judicial authorities. Where there is no criminal record entry, bulletin no. 1 is marked “None”. Bulletin No. 1 may also be issued to prison registrars in order to complete the individual files of incarcerated persons, as well as to directors…

The full list of criminal record entries applicable to the same legal entity is entered on bulletin no. 1, which is issued only to national judicial authorities, unless there is a reciprocal agreement. Where there is no criminal record entry, bulletin no. 1 is marked “None”.

Bulletin no. 2 is the record of the criminal records applicable to the same person, excluding those concerning the following decisions: 1° Convictions, convictions with an exemption from sentence or an exemption from educational measures or a declaration of educational success, criminal compositions and educational measures pronounced at the sanction stage with regard to a minor; 2° Convictions whose mention in bulletin no. 2 has been expressly excluded pursuant to…