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:

• 5,203 municipalities use ANTAI to handle their electronic tickets
• 654 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.

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1: See glossary