About ANTAI

About us

ANTAI in brief

Created in 2011 under the supervision of the French Ministry of the Interior and operated by the Road Safety Delegation (DSR), the French National Agency for Automated Offence Processing (ANTAI) is a public administrative body whose main mission is the automated processing of offences subject to a fixed fine.

Brief history

In 2003, the French government launched its first programme of installing fixed traffic enforcement cameras. The Directorate of the Inter-ministerial Project for Automated Traffic Enforcement (DPICA) was responsible for deploying these devices and automating the processing chain.
 

From 2011 onwards the newly created ANTAI took over from DPICA, under the supervision of the French Ministry of the Interior, and began managing, rationalising, and modernising the entire automated fine processing system. Since then, it has continued to expand its scope of action and range of services, notably through: developing the electronic tickets ("PVe") used by French National Police and Gendarmerie but also by municipal police and other categories of enforcement officers; processing of local authorities' post-parking fees ("FPS") as part of the decentralisation process for paid parking since 2018; managing fixed fine notices ("AFD") for certain road-related offences (driving a vehicle without insurance, without a driving licence, with a driving licence that does not correspond to the vehicle class) since 2019; managing fixed fines for illegal drug use since 1st September 2020.
Initially focused on road safety, ANTAI has gradually extended its remit to other areas of public order, including new tasks that go beyond the traditional sphere of security.

A network

Positioned at the centre of a partnership-based ecosystem, ANTAI works closely with the French Ministries of the Interior (first and foremost for road safety), Justice, Ecological Transition, and Public Finance, as well as with local authorities, European stakeholders in automated enforcement, and private-sector service providers.

ANTAI is divided into three main departments:

• the Administrative and Financial Department, which manages all ANTAI's budgetary, financial and administrative functions, as well as user relations and the National Processing Centre (CNT) in Rennes
• the Technical Department, responsible for the IT system and project management
• the Innovation Department, responsible for innovative new projects and effective use of ANTAI data.

3) Our partners

The automated processing of offences involves many stakeholders including government ministries, public bodies, local authorities, and private-sector service providers. ANTAI fulfils its role by working in coordination with all these entities.

Main areas of cooperation with French government departments

Ministry of the Interior:

• the Delegation for Road Safety (DSR), which has administrative oversight for ANTAI on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior
• the French National Agency for Secure Identity Documents (ANTS), some of whose systems are interfaced with CNT systems, in particular the vehicle registration system (SIV)
• the gendarmerie and police forces (DGPN, DCSP, DGGN, PP, ST(SI)²)1, etc.
   

Ministry of Justice:

• the Public Prosecutor in Rennes who defines criminal policy, plays a major role in setting fixed fines for offences, and supervises the work of the CACIR and OMP departments
• the Directorate of Criminal Affairs and Pardons (DACG) for the definition and orientation of criminal policy.

Ministry of Public Finance:

• the Directorate General of Public Finance (DGFiP), DRFIP Brittany (the automated traffic enforcement treasury and the National Fines Collection Centre), which support ANTAI in the collection of fixed and increased fines.

Ministry of Ecological Transition:

• the Directorate General for Infrastructure, Transport and the Sea (DGITM)
• the Directorate General for Risk Prevention (DGPR)

Territorial stakeholders

In addition to government departments, ANTAI works closely with other partners, in particular local authorities and their municipal police forces:

• 4,210 municipalities use ANTAI to handle their electronic tickets
• 582 municipalities have signed an agreement with ANTAI to handle their post-parking fees for paid parking

ANTAI also works with a number of local public or private ticketing services (SNCF railways, Kéolis, Transdev, motorway companies, etc.) and service providers selected by local authorities for their electronic ticketing solutions.

European partnerships

These partnerships aim to guarantee more equal treatment between French and foreign motorists, reduce the number of deaths on European roads, and enable better application of transnational legal decisions.

ANTAI exchanges information with 20 partner countries through the EUCARIS network. Since Brexit, the UK is no longer part of this exchange network.

Our mission

TAKING ACTION FOR PUBLIC POLICY

Originally set up to provide a rapid, effective and proportionate response to road traffic offences, ANTAI now handles on average 30 million cases of various offences annually, resulting in more than 50 million letters sent per year for:

• offences recorded by enforcement equipment (speed and traffic light cameras) or by electronic ticket
• failure to designate drivers of commercial vehicles
• fixed fine notices applicable to driving without a licence, driving without a licence appropriate to the class of vehicle, driving without insurance, and, since 1st September 2020, fixed fine notices for illegal drug use

During the pandemic, ANTAI was also called on to provide operational support to French national security forces and ensure compliance with health regulations, thereby helping to protect the population against COVID.

The National Processing Centre provides effective automated processing

At the National Processing Centre (CNT) in Rennes, ANTAI designs, operates, and develops the systems and applications that are needed to automatically process different types of offences. This single, centralised and secure production site brings together all those involved in automated processing to guarantee consistency and ensure the operational efficiency of the criminal justice system.

TRANSFORMING PUBLIC POLICY

Digitising the entire processing chain

Working towards the simplification of administrative processes and the French government's digital transformation, ANTAI contributes to improve the quality and efficiency of public action by making each stage of the offence processing chain paperless, for the benefit of users and partners involved in offence and/or appeal processing. ANTAI also ensures the legal and IT security of the procedures and tools it develops.
ANTAI plays a key role in creating innovative services, making administrative procedures more reliable, and using data effectively for the various public policies it supports.

Transforming the relationship with users

ANTAI has two key missions with regard to users:

• providing them with information and support
• providing access to online services for appeals, designations and payments

ANTAI has a call centre that can be reached on six toll-free numbers (in French, English, German, Dutch and Spanish) to provide information and assistance to users.
Since 2016, extensive work has been carried out to optimise ANTAI's digital services: overhauling the agency's website to adapt it to all screen types (smartphones, tablets, desktop computers, TVs, etc.), simplifying online navigation, sending electronic notifications, and so on.

Fixed fines can be e-ticketed

Since the end of 2018, three traffic offences have been punishable by fixed fine: driving without insurance, driving without a licence, and driving without a licence appropriate to the vehicle class. The development of a pioneering criminal information system (SID), linking around ten partners, has meant it is now possible to apply fixed fines for these three offences.

Thanks to this new processing chain, in addition it is now possible to apply fixed fines for drug use since 1st September 2020. The modernisation of the judicial system means that fixed fines could also be applied to other offences (provided for by the Law of 23 March 2019).

SUPPORTING LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND PROFESSIONALS

Making it easier to designate commercial vehicles

Since the introduction of the obligation to designate the drivers of commercial vehicles became effective in 2017, ANTAI has provided fleet managers with tools to help them carry out all the necessary procedures online: individual designation, batch designation, or fully automated designation through an agreement signed with ANTAI.
As a result, almost 75% of commercial vehicle driver designations are now made online.

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To find out more about ANTAI's activities, you can consult the agency's Annual Reports or Professional Equality Indexes by clicking on the following links:

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1: See glossary