Publications

Estimated at 2.5 million in 2015, the population of dependent older people could reach 4 million by 2050. Despite the desire of French authorities to promote a “shift towards home”, établissements d’hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes (Ehpads, “residential establishments for dependent elder...

Created to replace social energy tariffs, the energy cheque aims to combat the effects of fuel poverty by offering low-income households assistance in paying their energy bills. In the report published today, the Court of Accounts makes a series of observations which it believes justify a review of ...

The French aeronautics industry was the second largest in the world behind the US’one in 2019, and was thus a strategic sector for the national economy. It was a large-scale exporter (€64 billion in foreign sales in 2019) and was enjoying a dynamic period in terms of job creation and building revenu...

Created on 8 February 2001, AFT is responsible for Central Government debt administration. It has three objectives: the issue of securities (governed each year by the Budget Act), the minimisation of the cost of these issues and the management of the related risks. Although its robust strategy enabl...

The National Police had just over 126,000 active employees in 2020, including 9,200 commissioners and officers, 107,600 patrol officers and 10,300 ancillary police officers. The initial and on-going training of these people is particularly important because of the prerogatives associated with intern...

The Court of accounts has recently published the English version of the summaries of the twenty chapters of its last Annual public report, which provides an initial overview of the lessons to be learned from the health crisis and its budgetary, financial, economic and social consequences. Five of th...

The shrinkage-swelling of clay soils, or the shrink-swell phenomenon, consists of a series of movements caused by variations in the water content of clay soils. Known in France for more than 30 years, it has damaging consequences for housing that give rise to compensation, included since 1989 in the...

Dedicated to diseases long considered to be treated by the antibiotic and vaccine response, or confined to developing countries, infectious diseases research has returned to the forefront. In this report, the Court of Accounts focuses on the resources allocated to research in infectiology, as well a...

On 1 January 2021, there were 9.4 million children under 12 in France, representing 14% of the population. Their current state of health, and their care covered by the health system, will be one of the main determinants of the state of health of future generations of adults, and therefore of health ...

This report attempts to draw the first fiscal lessons from a crisis that has not yet come to an end. The Covid-19 pandemic, which broke out in China at the end of 2019 before spreading to the rest of the world, continues to take its toll on economies and societies. Although it is on its way out, thi...