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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-26

Software covered by this chapter may under no circumstances be used for the purposes of administrative investigations, nor for any purpose other than that defined in article 230-20.

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-24

A magistrate, responsible for monitoring the implementation of software covered by this chapter and ensuring that data is kept up to date, appointed for this purpose by the Minister of Justice, shall…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-21

…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 other info…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Chapter III: Court reconciliation software

Article 230-23

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…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Judgment

Article D45-2-2

…ning sentence to be served is less than or equal to one year, it shall order, in accordance with 1° and 2° of I of article 464-2, either that the sentence be adjusted in accordance with the procedures…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Retention period for data entered in the register and procedures for deleting them

Article R53-21-21

The public prosecutor or the public prosecutor informs the administrative department without delay of the decision to discontinue proceedings, except in cases where this decision is based on the premi…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Retention period for data entered in the register and procedures for deleting them

Article R53-21-22

The managing service shall proceed with the deletion of data entered in the directory: a) Upon expiry of the period provided for in Article R. 53-21-20 ; b) When informed of one of the decisions menti…

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French Code of Criminal ProcedureIn force
Section 5: Retention period for data entered in the register and procedures for deleting them

Article R53-21-20

The data entered in the register is kept for a period of thirty years from the day on which the examination, expertise or assessment was carried out or, if the person was a minor at the time of the of…

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

Article 230-2

…recy, the written requisition must be sent to a technical body subject to national defence secrecy, and designated by decree, together with the physical medium containing the data to be cleared or a c…

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Article Annexe 2-2

TABLE 1Appended to articles R. 225-81, R. 225-83 and R. 225-102Financial results of the company over the last five financial years NATURE OF INDICATIONS20..20..20..20..20..I. - Financial position at y…

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