Publications

Further to a previous report on the Départemental Fire and Rescue Services (SDIS) published in 2011, the Court and 13 regional audit chambers conducted a survey of the General Directorate for Civil Protection and Crisis Management (DGSCGC) and a sample of 34 SDIS, examining the staff of these local ...

The Cour des comptes has conducted the audit of the statement showing the use of funds raised from the public by the french Salvation Army Foundation for the fiscal years 2012 to 2016, in order to verify that the expenses incurred are consistent with the objectives of the appeal to public generosity...

The 2019 annual public report is comprised of three volumes: - Volume I sets out the findings and recommendations drawn from a selection of audits and investigations carried out in 2018 by the Cour and by the regional and territorial courts of audit; - Volume II presents how the audited administrat...

Integration through economic activity (IEA) is an original scheme: the State entrusts over 3,700 private entities, whom it granted €846m in subsidies in 2017, with the task of providing the unemployed individuals furthest from employment with socio-professional assistance. The European Social Fund (...

As a result of the 2014 railway reforms, France now has a unified full-fledged railway infrastructure manager in place in the form of SNCF Réseau, which is equipped with all the operational resources it requires to deliver on its remit. In 2018 a new reform transformed the organisation, with effect ...

Banque de France, a unique institution wholly owned by the French state, is part of the Eurosystem. Accordingly, it issues banknotes and circulates them within French territory, maintains paper money and ensures that it is circulated effectively. It holds the nation's foreign currency reserves and e...

The Cour des comptes hereby publishes its annual report on the implementation of the Social Security Finance Acts. The social security deficit and social security debt continued to decline in 2017. The national health insurance spending target (objectif national de dépenses d’assurance maladie, or O...

The Cour des comptes has published its sixth annual report, produced jointly with the regional courts of audit, on the financial position and management of local authorities and their public institutions. It offers a new analysis of the impact of the decrease in state funding over the 2014-2017 peri...

In an opinion published in 2014, the Court indicated that the use of funds resulting from appeals to public generosity issued by the National Union for the Blind and Visually Impaired (Unadev) was not consistent with the objectives presented by the association. The principal objective of this audit ...

The deficit of France’s public administrations was brought down to 2.6 points of GDP in 2017, i.e. a level close to that of 2007, but with a rate of compulsory tax and social security contributions and share of public spending in GDP that are three points higher than ten years ago. While the country...