Enacted parts

ARTICLE 226-15
(Ordinance No. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September into force 1 January 2002)
Maliciously opening, destroying, delaying or diverting of correspondence sent to a third party, whether or not it
arrives at its destination, or fraudulently gaining knowledge of it, is punished by one year's imprisonment and a fine of
€45,000.
The same penalty applies to the malicious interception, diversion, use or disclosure of correspondence sent,
transmitted or received by means of telecommunication, or the setting up of a device designed to produce such
interceptions.
SECTION V
VIOLATIONS OF PERSONAL RIGHTS RESULTING FROM COMPUTER
FILES OR PROCESSES
Articles 226-16 to
226-24
ARTICLE 226-16
(Act no. 92-1336 of 16 December 1992 Articles 360 and 373 Official Journal of 23 December 1992 in force 1 March
1994) 
(Ordinance No. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September in force 1 January 2002)
(Act no.2004-801 of 6 August 2004 Article 14 Official Journal of 7 August 2004)
Processing data or causing data to be processed where the data concerned is of a personal nature, without
respecting the formalities required by statute prior to the processing of such data, is punished by five years'
imprisonment and a fine of €300,000, even where committed through negligence.
The same penalties apply to processing of data or causing data to be processed that has been subject to one of the
measures provided for in 2° of I of article 45 of Act no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 regulating information technology, files
and liberty, even where this is committed through negligence.
ARTICLE 226-16-1
(Inserted by Act no.2004-801 of 6 August 2004 Article 14 Official Journal of 7 August 2004)
Except where this has been authorised under the conditions set out by the afore- mentioned Act no.78-17 of 6
January 1978, processing or causing data to be processed which is personal and which indicates a person or persons'
registration number in the National Register of Natural Persons is punished by five years' imprisonment and by a fine of
€300,000.