Publications

Sport at school in France combines the compulsory teaching of physical education (PE), and optional school sport, concerning over 12.4 and 2 million pupils respectively PE teaching, which mobilises €4 billion and 37,000 teachers, is the largest item of government expenditure on sport. The Court has ...

The posting of state officials to open positions, upon initial recruitment or subsequent mobilities, is a key factor both in the quality of public services and the quality of life at work.

The 2013 Act on Reform of the Republic’s Schools created the “educational digital public services” intended to teach schoolchildren digital techniques with a view to their future civic and professional integration, improve pedagogy through use of digital services and resources in classrooms, and fos...

The Court, which has already dedicated several reports to the nuclear power sector, analyses the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle, from reactor exit to disposal, through interim storage and, where applicable, reprocessing. The volume of materials and waste involved, the risks of saturation of cert...

In 2018, public deficit has once more reduced, to 2.5 GDP points, albeit less than in 2017. The public debt-to-GDP ratio has stopped rising, for the first time in ten years. The trajectory set for the April 2019 Stability programme foresees an increase in deficit and debt this year, due to the conve...

The financial situation of local government authorities and their public agencies in 2018.

To better inform the Parliament during the public finance policy debate, the Cour now presents its analyses on the financial situation of the social security system in two stages. This report studying the social security accounts in 2018 is the first stage. The aggregate deficit of the general socia...

The Cour des comptes has published its thirteenth report on the certification of the social security system financial statements for the 2018 fiscal year. Its opinion on the regularity, fairness and truthfulness of these financial statements provides information on the quality of the collection of s...

The Cour des comptes has published the certification document for the Central Government financial statements, prepared each year in accordance with Article 58 of the by-law relating to finance acts. The Cour des comptes certifies that the Central Government financial statements for 2018 as at 30 Ap...

The Cour des comptes has presented its report on the Central Government budget for 2018, as well as 66 budget execution analyses carried out, in particular by mission and by programme. In 2018, execution of the budget was better controlled than in previous years, notably thanks to a more realistic e...