Section 3: Transport, search, seizure and interception of telecommunications correspondence

The investigating judge, the judicial police officer assigned by him or her, or the judicial police officer or investigative assistant acting under the control of that officer, shall transcribe correspondence that is useful in ascertaining the truth. This transcription is placed in the file. Correspondence in a foreign language is transcribed into French with the assistance of an interpreter requested for this purpose. On pain of nullity, correspondence with a…

The recordings shall be destroyed, at the request of the public prosecutor or the public prosecutor’s office, on expiry of the limitation period for prosecution. A record shall be drawn up of the destruction operation.

No interception may take place on the line of a member of parliament or senator without the president of the assembly to which he or she belongs being informed by the investigating judge. No interception may take place on a line dependent on a lawyer’s chambers or home without the president of the bar being informed by the investigating judge. No interception may take place on a line depending from…

When an interception of correspondence emitted by electronic communications concerns a communication address that is used on the territory of a Member State of the European Union, and when it is not carried out within the framework of a European investigation decision, the examining magistrate or the judicial police officer assigned by him shall notify this interception to the competent authority of this State if the person targeted by this…