Publications

Social assistance policies are primarily characterised by the payment of minimum social benefits (more than €30 billion in 2024). Since 2015, the financial jurisdictions have been working on the main monetary social benefits. However, these benefits are not always enough to provide a lasting solutio...

At the request of the National Finance Committee of the National Assembly, the Court examined the impact of recent local tax reforms on local taxpayers, households and businesses, local authorities, as well as the State and public finances as a whole. These reforms were implemented with objectives u...

In its report on the EPR sector published in July 2020, the Court of Accounts highlighted multiple failures explaining the delays and cost overruns of new generation EPR nuclear reactor projects under construction or in operation, notably the one in Flamanville. Since then, the context has evolved s...

In France, the national police and gendarmerie jointly carry out public safety and law enforcement duties. Since the gendarmerie became part of the Ministry of the Interior in 2009, they have been under the same political authority. The internal security forces employ 253,000 police officers and gen...

In response to the health crisis and its economic consequences, and then to the inflationary shock caused by the energy crisis, the State has provided unprecedented support to many sectors of society since 2020.

Secours Catholique is a non-profit organisation under the French law of 1901, founded by the assembly of cardinals and bishops of France by decision of 8 September 1946. Its articles of association, which date from 1962, aim to promote the influence of Christian charity by providing help and support...

Occupational health is a major issue: while under the Labour Code, companies are responsible for protecting the health of their employees, nearly one million accidents, several hundred of which are fatal, and nearly 50,000 new cases of occupational diseases are recorded each year. To compensate vict...

Today’s report is the first by the Court of Accounts to specifically address the context, organisation and results of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. In December 2020, this vaccination campaign began, just a few months after the pandemic became global. Initially targeted at the population groups ...

Inspired by the British model when it was created in 2016, the French Public Health Agency (Santé Publique France - SPF) is an agency under the Ministry of Health. It was created from the merger of four organisations to improve the coherence and efficiency of public policies in the fields of epidemi...

Between 2020 and August 2022, 34.5 million cases of Covid-19 contamination were identified in France (excluding the results of self-tests). More than 150,000 people died, of which almost 126,400 were in hospital. Contact tracing, deployed from May 2020 after the first lockdown, is one of the tools f...