e) ''Interception'' shall mean the act intended to capture information in a computer system by
means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device;
f) ''Topography'' shall mean a series of related images, however fixed or encoded, representing
the three-dimensional pattern of the layers of which a semiconductor product is composed, in
which series, each image has the pattern or part of the pattern of a surface of the
semiconductor product at any stage of its manufacture;
g) ''Semiconductor product'' shall mean the final or an intermediate form of any product,
consisting of a body of material which includes a layer of semiconducting material and having
one or more other layers composed of conducting, insulating or semiconducting material, the
layers being arranged in accordance with a three-dimensional pattern and intended to perform,
exclusively or together with other functions, an electronic function.
CHAPTER II
Substantive criminal provisions
Article 3
Computer-related forgery
1 - Whoever, with the purpose of deceiving legal relationships, inputs, alters, erases or
suppresses computer data, or commits any other form of interference with the automatic
processing of data resulting in inauthentic data or documents, with the intent that it be
considered or acted upon for legal purposes as if it were authentic, shall be punishable by a
term of imprisonment up to 5 years or by fine between 120 and 600 days.
2 - Where actions described in the preceding paragraph concern data registered or
incorporated in a payment bank card or in any other device enabling access to a payment
system or means, communications system or conditional access service, offenders shall be
punishable by a term of imprisonment between 1 and 5 years.
3 - Whoever, with the purpose of causing damage to another person or of procuring an
illegitimate benefit for oneself or for another person, uses documents produced from
computer data subject to acts referred in paragraph 1 or any device wherein data subject to
acts referred in paragraph 2 are registered or incorporated, shall be punishable by penalties
provided respectively in one paragraph or another, as appropriate.
4 - Whoever imports, distributes, sells or holds for commercial purposes any device enabling
access to a payment system or means, communications system or conditional access service,
which has been subject to any of the acts referred in paragraph 2, shall be punishable by a
term of imprisonment between 1 and 5 years.
5 - Where facts referred to in the preceding paragraphs have been committed by staff in the
performance of their duties, offenders shall be punishable by a term of imprisonment between
2 and 5 years.