
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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Pierre Moscovici was appointed First President of the Cour des comptes, the French Supreme Audit Institution, by the President of the Republic on June 3rd, 2020. He succeeds Didier Migaud, who became President of the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (Haute Autorité pour la transparence...
In April 2019, the French national audit office, Cour des comptes announced that it would control troughout the whole rebuilding process, the fund-raising and use of donations made to the rebuildind of Notre Dame Cathedral, and would publish control reports on a regular basis. Among others, the firs...
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Created in 2001, SOS Education describes itself as “a militant association […] endeavouring fully independently to ensure that schools teach each child the basic skills and to strive for excellence”. It states that it is “totally transparent concerning its funding” and “funded exclusively by the gen...
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The closure of the budget year and settlement of accounts requires the government, in application of article 46 of the Constitutional Bylaw on Budget Acts of 1 August 2001, to introduce a budget review bill before 1 June of the following fiscal year. This retraces budget operations and closes the ac...
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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.
The Central Government’s financial statements and the Cour des comptes’ certification document are attached to the draft budget review act for the past financial year. These documents make it possible to ensure there is transparent information on the Central Government’s financial situation, in orde...
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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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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 health crisis has led to an unprecedented widening in the social security deficit, resulting from a fall in revenue and an increase in expenditure in response to the emergency. The result has been a considerable increase in social debt. In order to safeguard the social security system over the l...
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