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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter VIII: Recording and fixing images in public places using airborne devices

Article 230-52

The public prosecutor, the investigating judge or the judicial police officer assigned by him or requested by the public prosecutor, or the judicial police officer acting under his responsibility, sha…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter I: Clarifying the encrypted data needed to establish the truth

Article 230-3

On completion of the operations or as soon as it appears that such operations are technically impossible or on expiry of the prescribed time limit or on receipt of the stop order from the public prose…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 1: Background files

Article 230-10

The specially authorised personnel of the national police and gendarmerie services designated for this purpose as well as the specially authorised personnel of the State invested by law with judicial…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter IV: Judicial autopsies

Article 230-31

The procedures for applying the provisions of this chapter shall be specified by decree in the Conseil d'Etat.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-38

…shall draw up a report of each of the operations to set up the technical means mentioned in Article 230-32 and the operations to record location data. This report shall mention the date and time when…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-42

…n may be handed down on the basis of evidence gathered under the conditions provided for in Article 230-40, unless the request and the report referred to in the last paragraph of this same article hav…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-43

Recordings of location data shall be destroyed, at the request of the public prosecutor or the public prosecutor's office, on expiry of the limitation period for prosecution. A record of the destructi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-37

The operations provided for in this chapter shall be carried out under the supervision of the magistrate who authorised them or who authorised their continuation. The fact that these operations reveal…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-40

…appear in the case file: 1° The date, time and place where the technical means mentioned in article 230-32 was installed or removed; 2° The recording of location data and the elements that make it pos…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter V: Geolocation

Article 230-44

This chapter shall not apply where the purpose of real-time geolocation operations is to locate electronic communication terminal equipment, a vehicle or any other object whose lawful owner or possess…

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