Publications

The Greater Paris Metropolis (MGP) comprises 130 municipalities and the City of Paris, representing a total population of over seven million inhabitants. The report published today by the Court of Auditors begins with a reminder that the decision to create the MGP was prompted by an ambitious reform...

Although national expenditure on education is higher than the average of OECD countries, the French education system is struggling to produce satisfactory results. Despite the objectives of equality, the national uniformity specified is dealing with real inequalities in the treatment of pupils and l...

The First President of the Court of Accounts was heard on 10 January by the Senate's Committee on Culture, Education and Communication and then by the National Assembly’s Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education. These hearings follow the submission to Parliament of a progress report on the prepa...

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...

With the authority to audit the use of resources by organisations appealing for public donations, the Court of Accounts conducts audits into the use of donations received following crises or disasters (Asian tsunami in 2004, Haiti earthquake in 2010, Notre-Dame de Paris fire in 2019). This audit by ...

Telework under general laws, which appeared informally in the 1990s, was introduced in the civil service in 2012 by the so-called Sauvadet law. It is distinct from “enforced” telework in exceptional circumstances, imposed by the employer to protect staff and simultaneously ensure the continuity of p...

In the Seine basin, flooding is one of the biggest natural hazards, after drought. The Île-de-France metropolitan area is particularly vulnerable to the risk of flooding. The last major floods occurred in May-June 2016 and January-February 2018, costing €1.4 billion and €150 million to €200 million ...