Publications

The Cour des comptes (the French Court of Auditors) is making its report public on the French government’s budget in 20171, along with 66 analyses on execution of the budget. Budget execution in 2017 saw stronger economic growth than expected by the Initial Finance Law (LFI). In spite of the resulti...

The Cour des comptes (the French Court of Auditors) is publishing a report on the quality of accounting for government agencies that are required to have their accounts certified by an external auditor, pursuant to Article L. 132-2-2 of the French Financial Jurisdiction Code. This exercise is part o...

France set aside about €10 billion a year on defense equipment projects during the period covered by the current Military Programming Law (LPM) i.e., 2014-2019. The LPM bill being debated in Parliament provides for an increase in these investments for the period 2019-2023, with an annual average of ...

Valorisation of public research refers to the way in which knowledge developed by researchers in public structures is used by companies or the researchers themselves to produce economic and social value. This may be achieved via partnerships between public laboratories and companies, technology tr...

The 2018 annual public report is divided into three volumes: - volume I sets out the observations and recommendations resulting from a selection of controls and investigations conducted in 2017 by the Cour des comptes and the regional and territorial courts of audit; - volume II presents the follow-...

Eight years after publishing a report entitled “Household Wealth” (2009), the Council of Mandatory Contributions focused its research in 2017 on the taxation of household capital. This study focuses on all taxes and social contributions levied on holdings, financial income and the transfer of elemen...

La Poste group, France’s second-largest public sector employer with over 250,000 employees, operates across a variety of fields (banking, postal services, parcels delivery, mobile telephony, etc.), including through subsidiaries in France and abroad. La Poste delivers a public service throughout the...

Resulting from the reorganisation of Oséo, CDC Entreprises, Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement (FSI) and FSI Régions, Banque publique d’investissement (Bpifrance) was launched in 2012 to develop and broaden government support for corporate financing and to mitigate the risk of a credit crunch. Its s...

State-owned company France Télévisions is a group that comprises five national channels, 24 regional services, nine TV and radio stations in overseas territories, as well as several subsidiaries. It employed 9,932 FTE employees at end 2015 (excluding subsidiaries), o/w 86% were permanent positions. ...

The Cour des comptes has published a report, produced jointly with the regional courts of audit, on the financial position and management of local governments and their public institutions. The local public administration authorities ('APUL') account for 20% of government spending and are obliged to...