Publications

The Court of Accounts certifies with reservations the 2023 accounts of four of the five benefit branches of the general scheme, as well as those of the collection activity. It is unable to certify the 2023 accounts of the family branch (CAF network) and CNAF. In fact, the amount of errors not correc...

The Court of Accounts published its report on the State budget in 2023. The State budget deficit will be €173.0bn in 2023, the highest level ever recorded after 2020 (€178.1bn), a year marked by the Covid crisis. Expenditure remained at a very high level, as the initial Finance Act did not provide f...

Between 2017 and mid-2023, more than €3 billion in government funding was committed to the cultural sector outside the budget of the ministry of culture, which is almost equivalent to one year’s funding for the ministry’s cultural mission. On an unprecedented scale, these exceptional appropriations ...

At the request of the Senate Finance Committee, against the backdrop of an unprecedented rise in issuing times for identity cards and passports, the Court of Accounts has carried out an investigation entitled “The issuance of identity and driving documents: A crisis in the process of being resolved,...

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...

The Directorate General of Public Finances (DGFiP) is responsible for both taxation (assessment and collection of taxes and other public revenues) and public management (control and payment of expenditure by the State, local authorities and hospitals). It employs around 93,000 staff, 85 % of whom wo...

The Court of Accounts was asked by the National Assembly’s Public Policy Evaluation and Audit Committee to investigate the State’s policy for managing the 192,000 buildings in its stock. This report comprises three sections, devoted respectively to a description of this very large and highly diversi...

While France has recently adopted a possible warming scenario of around 2°C by 2050, in that same year the country could have 7.2 million inhabitants aged between 75 and 84, i.e. 75% more than today. As such, the objective of “living better at home”, in addition to efforts to combat global warming, ...

In the first part of its annual report on local government finances, published on 4 July this year, the Court of Accounts showed that local authorities as a whole were in a very favourable financial position in 2022, as they had been the previous year. In this second report, the Court points out tha...

The report published today on the structure of palliative and end-of-life care is being submitted to the National Assembly to form part of the public debate on the end of life. The Court of Accounts analyses the details of access to palliative care and administrative and health structures for end-of...