Created on 1stJanuary 2020, the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT) is a public body that aims to facilitate projects led by local authorities, by deploying State schemes to promote territorial cohesion and by facilitating access to technical support for small local authorities. The ANCT is placed under the supervision of the ministers responsible for regional planning, local authorities and urban policy, with administrative supervision provided by the Directorate-General for Local Authorities of the ministry of the interior (DGCL). The Court of Accounts examined the operation of the ANCT in order to assess the conditions under which it was created and its future perspectives, although it did not audit or assess all the public policies and programmes carried out by the ANCT.
