Title VIII: Criminal records

The bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record of legal entities is issued: 1° To prefects, State administrations and local authorities to whom proposals or tenders for the award of public works or contracts are referred; 2° To administrations responsible for the reorganisation of agricultural, commercial, industrial or craft professions; 3° To the presidents of commercial courts in the event of receivership or compulsory liquidation, as well as to judges…

Bulletin no. 3 is the record of the following convictions handed down by a national court for a felony or misdemeanour, where they are not excluded from Bulletin no. 2: 1° Sentences involving deprivation of liberty of more than two years which are not suspended or which must be served in full by the effect of revocation of the suspended sentence; 2° Sentences involving deprivation of liberty of the kind…

The mention of a conviction in bulletin no. 3 may be excluded under the conditions laid down by article 775-1.

Any person providing proof of identity shall obtain, upon request to the Public Prosecutor at the judicial court in whose jurisdiction they reside, a full record of the criminal records concerning them. In the case of a legal entity, the request is addressed to the public prosecutor at the judicial court in whose jurisdiction the legal entity has its registered office, by its legal representative providing proof of his capacity….

No interconnection within the meaning of the 3° of I of Article 33 of Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 relating to information technology, files and freedoms may be made between the automated national criminal record and any other file or processing of personal data held by any person or by a State department not under the authority of the Ministry of Justice. By way of derogation from the…

When, in the course of any proceedings, the public prosecutor or investigating judge finds that an individual has been convicted under a false identity or has usurped a civil status, the necessary rectifications are immediately made ex officio at the behest of the public prosecutor before the proceedings are closed. The rectification is requested by petition to the president of the court or tribunal that handed down the decision. If…

A decree in the Conseil d’Etat shall determine the measures necessary for the implementation of articles 768 to 778, and in particular the conditions under which bulletins no. 1, 2 and 3 of the criminal record must be requested, drawn up and issued. This Regulation also determines the conditions under which the information recorded by the automated national criminal record may be used for the enforcement of criminal sentences. This…

Any person who, by assuming a false name or capacity, has had an extract from the criminal record of a third party issued to them is punishable by a fine of €7,500. Any person who has provided imaginary identity information that has caused or could have caused erroneous entries to be made in the criminal record shall be liable to the same penalties. The same penalties shall apply to anyone…