28 March 2012
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France: Text
of the new anti-terrorist law
The new antiterrorist law, which contains provisions concerning
security and border controls, introduces changes affecting: videosurveillance
(chapter 1); the control of travel, and the use of information
on telephone and electronic exchanges by people who are liable
to take part in terrorist acts (ch. 2); the automatic treatment
of personal data (ch. 3); the repression of terrorism and the
execution of sentences (ch. 4); measures concerning the victims
of terrorism (ch. 5); the loss of French nationality (ch. 6);
provisions affecting audio-visual broadcasters (ch. 7); combating
the financing of terrorism (ch. 8); private security activity
and airport security (ch. 9); provisions affecting overseas territories
(ch. 10); and final provisions (ch. 11).
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=INTX0500242L in French, pdf). LOI no 2006-64 du 23 janvier 2006 relative à la lutte contre le terrorisme et portant dispositions diverses relatives à la sécurité et aux contrôles frontaliers (1). Source: Journal Officiel de la République Française, 24.1.2006.
The page of the French Senate concerning this law is particularly
helpful, as it contains the opinion of the Constitutional Court
( http://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/decision/2006/2005532/2005532dc.htm
) which considers some aspects of articles 6 and 19 to be unconstitutional,
reports by the different commissions that have examined it, and
documents the legislative stages that the law has undergone in
detail. The French Senate's legislative dossier on the new antiterrorist
law is available at: http://www.senat.fr/dossierleg/pjl05-109.html
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