Section 4: Provisions relating to the digitisation of procedural documents

The conversion into digital format of any document intended to be transmitted to the judicial authority or placed within the digital procedural file, is carried out under the responsibility of the latter and requires the use of a digitisation device ensuring a faithful reproduction of its form, content and colour. Any document converted into digital format by a person who is not authorised within the meaning of Article D. 589…

Any procedural document in digital format may, if necessary, be printed out by the magistrates and registry agents assisting them, the national police services, the national gendarmerie units, the officials and agents exercising judicial police powers, the prison services or the judicial youth protection services in order to be handed over or transmitted in paper format. Documents that have been digitally signed within the meaning of Article D. 589-2 retain…