Title VIII: Criminal records

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…

A legal entity’s bulletin no. 2 is the record of the records applicable to it, excluding those concerning the following decisions: 1° Convictions that have been expressly excluded from being mentioned on the record, pursuant to Article 775-1; 2° Convictions for minor offences and fines of less than €30,000; 3° Suspended sentences when they are to be considered null and void ; 4° Convictions with a dispensation from sentencing or…

The court which passes sentence may expressly exclude its mention in bulletin No. 2 either in the sentencing judgment, or by judgment passed subsequently on the application of the convicted person investigated and judged in accordance with the rules of jurisdiction and procedure laid down by articles 702-1 and 703. The competent courts are then composed in accordance with the provisions of the last paragraph of article 702-1. The exclusion…

Convicts sentenced to a penalty that cannot give rise to a rehabilitation as of right benefit, upon simple request, from the exclusion of the mention of their conviction from bulletin no. 2, according to the rules of jurisdiction set by the preceding article, at the expiry of a period of twenty years from their final release or their conditional release not followed by revocation, if they have not, since this…

The information contained in bulletin no. 2 of a person’s criminal record, where it relates to a conviction handed down by a foreign court, is withdrawn on expiry of the periods provided for in Article 133-16-1 of the Criminal Code.

The bulletin n° 2 of the criminal record is issued: 1° To prefects and State public administrations dealing with applications for the duties of a commercial court judge, applications for public employment, proposals for honorary distinctions or bids for public works or public contracts or with a view to disciplinary proceedings or the opening of a public school, as well as applications for approval intended to enable the recording by…