Publications

The Court of Accounts has published its 2021 Central Government Budget Report, accompanied by 64 budget performance analyses. The year 2021 was marked by significant central government interventions, particularly due to the ongoing health crisis and the ramping up of the recovery plan. On the other ...

Launched in December 2015, the future software for drafting procedures in the framework of police investigations – called " Scribe" – was initially intended to be a common tool that would replace the police and gendarmerie's software for drafting procedures. As part of a broad and complex digital ev...

Over the last decade, organic farming has undergone a change of scale, with the share of organic farming in the agricultural area increasing from 3% to 10% between 2010 and 2021and organic consumption increasing 3.5 times over this period. Now 19% of farmers are organic. In the report published toda...

Ten years after the Department of Mayotte was created, and while the Government has made one plan after another in its favour, the situation of Mayotte remains atypical within the Republic. In sixty years, the archipelago has seen its population multiplied by 12 and it now has the highest population...

Established in the 19th century out of a desire to save the nation’s heritage, the monumental heritage policy has continued to expand to cover an increasingly wide range of monuments and heritage sites. While 44,540 buildings were covered by the historic monuments system in the strict sense in 2020,...

The Court of Accounts ensures, during its audits of organisations making public appeals for donations, that the funds collected are in line with these organisations’ stated objectives. If this is not the case, the Court issues a declaration of non-compliance, which is then made public. Formed in 201...

Since its creation, the Ministry of Culture has pursued a policy of support for the performing arts, aiming to encourage artistic creation, to provide broad access to theatres, music, dance, circus and street arts throughout the country, and to develop and diversify audiences. The Ministry’s action ...

The Court issues a qualified opinion on the 2021 financial statements of the five branches of the general social security system - including, for the first time, the newly-created 5th autonomy branch - and declines to certify the 2021 financial statements of the contributions collection (URSSAF netw...

The repeated social tensions - linked in particular to employment, inequality and insecurity - that the overseas territories experienced between 2006 and 2009, then again in 2017 in French Guiana and 2018 in Mayotte and Reunion, underline the continued, even worsening, economic and social vulnerabil...

Hospital-university (HU) staff, who are professors, researchers and hospital practitioners, constitute an elite body, in both university teaching hospitals and universities alike. They are few in number (less than 10,000, of which about 6,300 are tenured) and are selected after an extremely demandin...