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 ...

A thriving charitable sector depends on the trust placed in organisations that promise to act in accordance with their appeals for donations and the wishes of donors. Since the law of 7 August 1991, the Court of Accounts has had the role of contributing to this confidence by verifying that donations...

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,...

The 2024 Annual Public Report, published today, in figures: 725 pages in two volumes; 62 audit recommendations; the result of the work of the six chambers of the Court, seventeen regional Chambers of Accounts (CRCs), five inter-jurisdictional committees (common to the Court and a CRC) ; contribution...

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...

This report examines the use of resources raised from public generosity by the Aides association. Dedicated to the fight against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and to supporting people exposed to it, Aides has since its inception extended its activities to other at-risk groups. In 2022, its ...

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...