Information on CBE service delivery France

Functional contact: functional-eucaris@antai.fr
Technical contact: technical-eucaris@antai.fr

Main characteristics of the French vehicle register:

  • The vehicle register is situated at the French Police (F2)
  • In France there are two types of plates: FNI (old format) and SIV (new format):
    (New format SIV):
    – Change of holder: The certificate is updated with data from the new holder. No modification on plate.
    – Sample of an SIV plate:  ZA-123-DE
    (Old format FNI):
    – Change of holder: The certificate is updated with data from the new holder.  A new plate is delivered in the new SIV format.
    – Sample of an FNI plate:  7130 LA 75
  • The (old) FNI license plate number contains some sort of regional code.
    – SIV plates: No regional information. In case of sale, registration doesn’t change, only holder data is updated.
    – FNI plates : Contains département data.  In case of sale with change of holder, a new SIV registration is provided without regional information.
  • The French register will only return holder data
  • Vehicle history is kept as long as five years after the destruction of a vehicle. After that all data are deleted from the database in order to allow the reuse of registration.
  • There are a few possibilities that result in changing the license plate on a vehicle; From old(FNI) to new (SIV) format,  a mission on behalf of the state, diplomatic plates and temporary registrations.
  • The following vehicles are stored in the French register:  Motorcycles, agricultural vehicles, military, civilian vehicle status, old-timers, imported transit vehicles, diplomatic vehicles, taxi….
  • The following types of license plates are stored in the French register: Normal, diplomatic, garage, temporary.
  • For vehicles reported stolen,  a signal (upon reference date-time) will be returned, resulting in a message: ‘ Information not disclosed’

Additional Information:

  • At the first stage of technical implementation of the Directive 2011/82 France will use only the “Multiple CBE” functionality.
  • France will send multiple CBE requests each day between 09.00 and 18.00. This exchange includes the number of files necessary to treat our stock divided in messages of x requests ID’s
  • The scheduled time that France will respond to multiple requests will be between 17.00 to 03.00 the next day.
  • The mean response time of a CBEMultipleOHByRegNumAndDate-message will be between 4 hours and one day
  • France expects to send 400.000  requests (request ID’s ) per year
  • France will be using only two of  the codes of traffic offences during the forthcoming exchange of information regarding the CBE Directive., which are 1 (Speeding) and 4 (Failing to stop at red traffic light).  All others codes are treated by others ways.

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