As is the case every year, the Annual Public Report presents an illustrative sample of the work carried out by the Financial Courts along with information on implementation of their recommendations, which is monitored and measured with the help of a special indicator (I) This year’s Annual Report al...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has major consequences on French public finances. Yet France did not benefit from a sound initial fiscal position to address the crisis. The results for 2019 show that the structural deficit has not been reduced and that public debt has remained stable at a high level. In 2020,...
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In order to ensure that the French National Assembly is better informed, since 2019, the Cour des comptes has presented its annual report on local public finances in two parts. Pamphlet 1, focusing on the financial position in 2019, was published in June 2020. Pamphlets 2 and 3, published jointly, f...
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As with 2018, the financial context remained favourable to local communities in 2019 thanks to the dynamism of their tax revenue, the slight progression of transfers from the State and relatively controlled expenditures. Their gross savings, which significantly increased, contributed to the financin...
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Against the backdrop of a health crisis with major and long-term implications on public finances, the Cour des comptes has analysed the advantages and limitations of budgetary framework law and the governance of public budgets in France. Ten years after the framework was first implemented, when asse...
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The European Court of Auditors (ECA) is lauching its 2020 ECA Award for Research on Public Sector Auditing. As in previous years, the award inteds to provide an incentive and recognition for research on public audit-related issues, with a specific focus this year on EU added value. The 2020 ECA Awar...
The employment of a significant number of contract civil servants is now a major feature of public employment in France. However, their role in central government, local authority and public hospital services is still very poorly defined.
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In order to provide you with relevant information, the French Cour des comptes gives you the opportunity to read or reread its reports in relation to the current health emergency crisis or the situation of public finances.
In 2019 the Cour des comptes audited the management of the National Employment Agency for the 2012-2018 period. This public administrative establishment, created at the end of 2008 through the merger of the ANPE and Assédic, is responsible for receiving, informing, guiding, supporting and compensati...
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In order to provide the Parliament, before the summer, with an appraisal of the financial situation of various public administrations for the past year, the Cour des comptes presents its annual analyses of the financial situation and outlook for local authorities and the social security system in tw...
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