The information recorded in the processing is kept in the active database until the prosecution is terminated or, where a case has been referred to a court, until the last court to which the case was referred has given a final ruling in a decision on the merits of the case or, where a conviction has been handed down, until the end of the enforcement of the sentence handed down to the person concerned or, in the absence of such enforcement, until the sentence has become time-barred.
Notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph, the minutes of a judgment or ruling are kept in the active database for a period of eight years from the date of its pronouncement.
Once these periods have elapsed, the data and documents are kept in an inactive database for their administrative useful life, in accordance with the rules applicable to the intermediate archiving of court files.
The provisions of the preceding paragraphs are applicable to all court files.
The provisions of the preceding paragraphs do not apply to the single personality file, which is kept in accordance with the provisions of Decree no. 2014-472 of 9 May 2014 taken for the application of Articles L. 322-8 to L. 322-10 of the Juvenile Criminal Justice Code relating to the single personality file.