Title XX: National automated genetic fingerprint database and central biological sample preservation service

Unless otherwise decided by the public prosecutor, the judicial police officer or, in the course of an investigation, the investigating judge, seals and samples relating to the traces and samples mentioned in 1°, 1° bis, 3° and 4° of I and 1° and 2° of III of Article R. 53-10 are sent, when the analysis has been carried out, to the central service for the preservation of biological samples with…

I.-Seals and samples are sent to the central service for the preservation of biological samples in standardised packaging in accordance with the procedures laid down by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Interior, and accompanied by the information mentioned in article R. 53-11. When the packaging of the seals and biological samples sent to it does not comply with the requirements set by the…

The magistrate mentioned in article R. 53-16, assisted by the committee provided for in the same article, controls the conditions under which the central service for the preservation of biological samples operates. It may carry out any on-site checks. The authority responsible for the service shall send it an annual activity report and, at its request, any information relating to the operation of the service. The magistrate shall draw up…