#TRAT2614115AFrance Authorizes Toll Operators to Use Vehicle and Plate Data for Road Offence Enforcement
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This order allows motorway and national road infrastructure operators to process personal data to detect and manage certain road toll or access-related offences. They may use video surveillance and automated licence plate recognition to identify vehicles, prepare offence reports, support payment or penalty procedures, and handle disputes. The measure affects road concessionaires, infrastructure operators, drivers, vehicle owners, and rental or lending situations. Operators can record vehicle images, plate images, offence details, vehicle characteristics, and information needed to process challenges such as theft, plate misuse, vehicle sale, destruction, rental, or loan.
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Key Changes
- Authorizes road concessionaires and infrastructure operators to process personal data for specified road offence enforcement purposes
- Permits use of video surveillance and automated licence plate recognition to identify vehicles and pre-fill offence reports
- Defines the types of data that may be recorded, including vehicle images, plate images, offence details, vehicle characteristics, and dispute documents
Obligations
What this law requires
Motorway concessionaires, road network operators, and national road infrastructure/artwork concessionaires may process personal data for offence enforcement only under their own responsibility and only for the listed purposes: detecting offences, identifying offenders, pre-filling offence reports, implementing the Article 529-6 criminal procedure, tracking contraventions for prosecution follow-up, and managing disputes or litigation.
Operators using video surveillance or automated licence plate recognition for these offences must restrict the recorded personal data to the categories listed in the order, including vehicle images, licence plate images, offence details, vehicle identification data, offender-identification data from authorised files, and documents needed to examine a challenge.
When processing offence data, operators must record only specified offence details: nature, place, date and time of the offence, unpaid amount due, identification of the reporting agent, and where applicable the origin of the trip subject to toll or access-payment rules.
When processing vehicle-identification data for these offences, operators must limit that data to the vehicle colour, make, model, class, and registration number used to commit the offence.
For protests involving a loaned or rented vehicle, operators may process only the documents and personal details necessary to examine the protest, including the driver or potential driver's name, first name, sex, date and place of birth, address, driving licence number, and, where relevant, a copy of the rental contract.