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Article 230-15 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Personal data concerning persons who are the subject of proceedings to investigate the causes of death or disappearance are deleted once the investigation has made it possible to find the missing person or to rule out any suspicion of a crime or offence. Once the perpetrator has been finally convicted, the persons mentioned in 2°, 3° and 4° of Article 230-13 may request the deletion of data recorded in the…

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Article 230-18 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In application of Article 31 of the aforementioned Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978, a decree in the Council of State, issued after consultation with the National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties, shall set the terms and conditions for the application of this section. It shall specify how long the recorded data is to be kept, the procedures for authorising the persons mentioned in 1° and 3°…

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Article 230-19 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The following are entered in the wanted persons file in respect of judicial decisions: 1° Search warrants, orders and notes issued by the public prosecutor, investigating, trial or sentence enforcement courts, the liberty and custody judge and the juvenile judge for the purpose of searching for or arresting a person; 2° The obligations or prohibitions referred to in 1°, 2°, 3°, 3° bis, 7°, 8°, 9°, 12°, 12° bis, 14°…

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Article 230-20 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

In order to facilitate the gathering of evidence of offences and the identification of their perpetrators, the services of the national police and the national gendarmerie entrusted with a judicial police mission as well as the service placed under the authority of the minister responsible for the budget entrusted with carrying out judicial investigations may implement, under the control of the judicial authority, software intended to facilitate the exploitation and…

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Article 230-21 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

The data used by the software covered by this chapter may only come from the judicial proceedings documents already held by the departments mentioned in article 230-20. When data is used which may indirectly reveal the identity of individuals, this identity may only be revealed once the matching operations have been carried out, and only for those items of data which have actually been matched with each other or with…

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Article 230-22 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Personal data that may be revealed by the exploitation of the enquiries and investigations mentioned in 1° of Article 230-20 shall be deleted when the investigation is closed and, in any event, on expiry of a period of three years. Personal data that may come to light as a result of the investigations referred to in 2° of the same article shall be deleted as soon as the investigation has…

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Article 230-23 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

Without prejudice to the supervisory powers granted to the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés by the aforementioned loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978, the processing of personal data is carried out under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor, who may request that it be deleted, completed or rectified, particularly in the event of a judicial reclassification. Rectification for judicial requalification is automatic when requested by the…

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