Question 16853 — crimes, misdemeanors and contraventions

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Mr. Abdelkader Lahmar draws the attention of the Minister of Action and Public Accounts to the functioning of the National Agency for the Automated Processing of Offenses (ANTAI), to the guarantees surrounding its automated processing, as well as to the transparency of the data produced in the context of mass fines. The National Agency for the Automated Processing of Offenses today constitutes a central link in the system French financial sanctions. In particular, it ensures the management, notification and monitoring of an extremely large volume of infringement notices and fixed fines, in a context of increasing digitalization of procedures for detecting and processing infringements. This development is part of a broader movement of dematerialization and automation of the mass penal chain, raising important issues in terms of data reliability, legal certainty, right to effective remedy and administrative transparency. Several research studies in the sociology of law and political science have highlighted the effects of automated sanction systems on procedural guarantees, in particular due to the standardized nature of processing, the dependence on data entered in advance by the security forces and the difficulties encountered by users to understand or contest decisions. The Defender of Rights has also repeatedly warned of the risks linked to the dematerialization of mass administrative and criminal procedures, in particular when this can lead to more complex access to recourse, processing errors or a breakdown in equality in access to information. These concerns are similar to those expressed by several organizations defending fundamental rights, as well as by recent academic work on the effects of the automation of administrative and criminal sanctions. In this context, the absence of detailed public data relating to the internal functioning of ANTAI, the reliability of processing and the error rates observed does not make it possible to independently assess the robustness of this system nor its impact on user rights. It therefore appears necessary to strengthen transparency around these automated processing operations in order to guarantee the legal certainty of the procedures and citizens' confidence in the financial penalty system. In this context, he asks him to kindly communicate, for each of the last five years available, the total number of contravention notices, fixed fines and fixed fines for torts processed by ANTAI, as well as their distribution by type of procedure and by method of observation (automatic radars, electronic reports, fines upon inspection, other automated devices); the error rates observed in processing, in particular license plate identification errors; duplicate verbalizations; errors in entry or transmission of data ; reported cases of plate theft and administrative cancellations linked to technical errors; the number of disputes directly linked to malfunctions or processing errors attributable to the automated chain, as well as their resolution rate favorable to users; the average notification times for notices of contravention, as well as the rates of non-delivery or return of notices due to error address or identification. He would like to know whether ANTAI has internal indicators relating to the performance of its processing, particularly in terms of data reliability, procedure failure rate or quality of information transmitted to the enforcement authorities. In this context, it may be important to specify in your response whether independent audits of the automated infringement processing system have been carried out. been carried out, in particular on the reliability of the algorithms, the quality of the data and the risks of systemic errors. He would also like to know the conditions under which data from ANTAI are transmitted to internal security forces, judicial authorities and the general directorate of public finances, as well as the mechanisms for controlling their accuracy and updating. He also asks her whether work is planned to strengthen the transparency of automated infringement processing systems, in particular through the publication in open data of detailed statistics on errors, disputes and cancellations of procedures. Finally, he asks whether the Government plans to guarantee a reinforced right to explanation and challenge decisions resulting from automated processing within the framework of financial sanctions, in order to ensure compliance of these measures with the fundamental principles of the right to an effective remedy and a fair trial.

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1. 14 July 2026

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