Section 5: Undercover procedures, sound recordings and images of certain places or vehicles

An interministerial technical assistance service is set up within the National Directorate of the Judicial Police, made up of police officers, gendarmerie members and customs officers. This service is responsible for training undercover agents, technical assistance for undercover operations defined by Article 706-81 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and by article 67 bis-II of the Customs Code and the centralisation of information from these operations carried out by customs,…

May be authorised to take part in undercover operations as defined by Article 706-81 of the Code of Criminal Procedure officers or agents of the criminal investigation departments of the national police and national gendarmerie units and agents of the customs administration specially authorised to carry out investigations. Customs officers referred to in Article 67 bis of the Customs Code, in the context of the offences referred to in II…

The authorisation referred to in the first paragraph of Article D. 15-1-2 is issued by the Public Prosecutor at the Paris Court of Appeal after approval has been granted, as appropriate, by the Director General of the National Police, the Director General of the National Gendarmerie or the Director General of Customs and Excise. This authorisation may only be granted on the proposal of the National Director of the Judicial…

For the application of articles 694-7 and 695-2 of this code, the Minister of Justice shall give his approval after receiving the opinion of the National Director of the Judicial Police. For the application of the provisions of Article 67 bis-VIII of the Customs Code, the Minister of Justice shall give his agreement after obtaining the opinion of the Director General of Customs.

The departments, units and bodies, referred to in Article 706-95-17, that may carry out operations to install the technical devices referred to in l’article 706-96 sont : the national directorate of the judicial police and its zonal and regional directorates; the general directorate of internal security; the central offices of the judicial police; the national police intervention force ; the territorial judicial police services and the territorial RAID services of…