Section 2: Ordinary powers of investigation

The provisions of Article 11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure or those relating to professional secrecy do not prevent the communication, to the competent authorities of the Member States of the European Union and to the European Commission, of information and documents held and collected by competition officers, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control officials in the performance of their duties of investigating and establishing infringements and breaches of the…

The authorised officials may cooperate, in the performance of their duties, with the competent authorities of the member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), with a view to preventing or stopping illicit cross-border commercial practices.This cooperation consists of establishing contacts, exchanging information not covered by the provisions of Article 11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure or those relating to professional secrecy, and in the referral…

The authorised agents and the officers and agents of the judicial police may spontaneously communicate to each other the information and documents held or collected in the performance of their respective missions, without the provisions of Article 11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure or those relating to professional secrecy being an obstacle to such communication. These information and documents may be communicated, for the performance of their respective duties…

The services and establishments of the State and other public authorities are required to communicate to competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers and judicial police officers all information and documents in their possession which may prove useful in the fight against counterfeiting, with the exception of that which they have collected or exchanged pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002, as amended, on the implementation…

The provisions of article 11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure or those relating to professional secrecy do not prevent the disclosure of information by authorised agents, with a view to preventing a serious or immediate danger to the health or safety of consumers.

The dispositions de l’article 11 du code de procédure pénale ou celles relatives au secret professionnel ne font pas obstacle à la notification d’informations relatives à un contenu illicite aux personnes mentionnées au 2 du I de l’article 6 de la loi n° 2004-575 du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique par les agents habilités, dans les conditions prévues au 5 du même I.

For the application of the third paragraph of the article 11 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the public prosecutor may, for the same purposes and under the same conditions, make public, through the intermediary of competition, consumer affairs and fraud control officers, objective elements drawn from the proceedings that do not include any assessment of the merits of the charges against the accused persons.