Publications

The pass Culture scheme has been a priority policy of the ministry of culture since 2017. Following trials in a number of departments, the pass Culture scheme was rolled out to all 18 year-olds throughout France in 2021, then extended to 15-17 year-olds in 2022. It provides beneficiaries with an ind...

Central government procurement totalled around €60 billion (or 2.5 % of GDP) in 2022. The awarding of public procurement contracts is governed by three fundamental principles that structure regulations in this area: equal treatment of candidates, freedom of access to public procurement and transpare...

Against comparable European countries, France experienced a faster rate of deindustrialisation between 2000 and 2010. Following the Gallois report in 2012, France gradually changed its strategy. The actions taken have come in a variety of forms, with contrasting results in 2024. Against this backdro...

The Territoires d'Industrie Programme was launched in 2018 by the government to set up a cooperative framework to support industry outside metropolitan areas, around small and medium-sized towns and in rural areas. These areas are home to a large number of companies and production units, with a prop...

Emergency departments within public or private healthcare facilities provide continuous care for all patients requiring urgent treatment, including those with psychiatric conditions. Emergency medicine is defined by the provision of care within the first 24 hours of a patient’s arrival and is not de...

Spread across three oceans, the French overseas territories, despite their legal, demographic, cultural, economic and social heterogeneity, are faced with common difficulties, such as unemployment and poverty rates that are systematically higher than in mainland France. Training students and the dev...

Saving for retirement allows you to save during your working life so that you have the resources to supplement the sums paid by compulsory pension schemes. In the years leading up to the Pacte Act of 22 February 2019, the French supplementary pension landscape was marked by a low level of subscripti...

At a time of crisis in the teaching profession, causing difficulties in recruitment, replacement and retention, the human resources function of the Ministry of National Education, the largest employer in the State, is crucial. Education accounts for the largest share of the national budget (€87 bill...

The 2019 law on the transformation of the civil service sought to modernise and simplify social dialogue in the three branches of the civil service: modernise by making it possible to conclude collective agreements, simplify by reducing the number of social bodies in order to lighten the procedures ...

This review, conducted by an inter-jurisdictional panel bringing together the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Audit Chamber and the six thematic chambers of the Court of Accounts, takes the form of an in itinere assessment - carried out during the implementation of the plan being evaluated. Anno...