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Article 431-31
A prison term of six months to two years and/or a fine of 200,000 to 1,000,000 francs
shall be imposed on anyone who obstructs the activity of the Commission on Personal
Data in the following ways:
1. by obstructing the performance of the tasks entrusted to its members or authorized
officials in implementation of the Law on Personal Data;
2. by refusing to communicate to its members or authorized officials, in implementation
of the Law on Personal Data, information and documents necessary for the performance
of their tasks or by concealing said documents or information or causing them to
disappear;
3. by communicating information that is not consistent with the content of the data
recorded as at the time when the request was made or that fails to present the content in a
directly accessible form.
CHAPTER III: OTHER ABUSES
Article 431-32
Anyone who produces, sells, imports, holds, distributes, offers, assigns or makes
available a piece of equipment, a computer program or any device or datum designed or
specially adapted for committing one or more of the offenses set out in Articles 431-8 to
431-16 of the present Law, or a password, access code or similar computerized data that
enables access to all or part of a computer system shall be punished with the penalties
established respectively for the offense itself or for the most severely punished offense.
Article 431-33
Anyone who joins an association or enters into an agreement for the purpose of preparing
or committing one or more of the offenses established by the present Law shall be
punished with the penalties established respectively for the offense itself or for the most
severely punished offense.
CHAPTER IV: CONTENT-RELATED OFFENSES
SECTION I: CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Article 431-34
Anyone who produces, records, offers, makes available, distributes or transmits an image
or representation that constitutes child pornography through a computer system shall be
punished with a prison term of five (5) to ten (10) years and/or a fine of 5,000,000 to
15,000,000 francs.
Article 431-35