French Code of Criminal Procedure
In forceI.-Pursuant to the provisions of 3° of Article 706-25-9, the authorities, agents or services mentioned in II may directly query the file, via a secure electronic communication system, based solely on a person's identity :
-for any application for recruitment, assignment, authorisation, approval, clearance, or renewal of any job in the civil service, any job with an operator of vital importance, in a facility classified for environmental protection known as a SEVESO, or concerning an activity or profession in the field of security, education teaching, or transport;
-as well as for monitoring the exercise of these activities and professions.
II.-The authorities, agents or departments mentioned in I are :
<1° Prefects or prefectural officers authorised by them for this purpose;
2° Heads of departments or officers individually designated and authorised by them for this purpose of the following State administrations:
a) The human resources management department of the ministry responsible for national education and higher education;
b) The rectorats and departmental education departments;
c) The youth judicial protection department and its regional departments;
d) The directorate of prison administration and the inter-regional directorates of prison services;
e) The directorate general of the national gendarmerie and the directorate general of the national police as part of the administrative investigations for which they are responsible;
f) The directorate general of internal security.
III.-The persons mentioned in II shall indicate the reason for which they are querying the file.
