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Measuring environmental performance in the public sector
The french Cour des comptes organized a working session on the following themes «Measuring environmental performance in the public sector », Thursday, February 6, 2025, from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm , in the Grand’chambre of the Cour des comptes and online. Introduced by its First President, Pierre Mosco...
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Local government finances 2019 Part 2
The Cour des comptes of France now presents its annual report on local public finances in two parts to improve the information given to Parliament. Part I, focusing on the financial position in 2018, was published last June; part II is focused on the situation in 2019 and beyond, as well as on an as...
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La Poste
La Poste group, France’s second-largest public sector employer with over 250,000 employees, operates across a variety of fields (banking, postal services, parcels delivery, mobile telephony, etc.), including through subsidiaries in France and abroad. La Poste delivers a public service throughout the...
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La Poste
La Poste group, France’s second-largest public sector employer with over 250,000 employees, operates across a variety of fields (banking, postal services, parcels delivery, mobile telephony, etc.), including through subsidiaries in France and abroad. La Poste delivers a public service throughout ...
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History
The Cour des comptes is an emanation of the curia regis, the king’s court. In the Middle Ages, it was convened in the sovereign’s residence, on the Ile de la Cité, in Paris, a building which is now the law courts and Sainte-Chapelle. History The construction of the Palais Cambon The present-day Hi... -
Presentation
La Cour des comptes a pour mission de s'assurer du bon emploi de l'argent public et d'en informer les citoyens (selon l'article 47-2 de la Constitution). Juridiction indépendante, la Cour des comptes se situe à équidistance du Parlement et du Gouvernement, qu’elle assiste l’un et l’autre. Lorsque ... -
General Prosecutor
Véronique Hamayon is the General Prosecutor of the Cour des comptes since 11th of October 2024. She graduated from the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA). The duties of the General Prosecutor Véronique Hamayon's Biography Véronique Hamayon was born on July 13, 1960 The duties of the Gener... -
2021 Annual public report
The Covid-19 epidemic, the activity restrictions it has brought and the emergency and support measures for households and businesses decided by the Government have had a massive impact on France’s public finances and on most sectors of activity. For this reason, the French 'Cour des comptes' has cho...
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Export support schemes
For the last 15 years, foreign trade has been experiencing growing difficulties and the French trade balance has continued to worsen. In 2021, in an admittedly unusual context, it reached an all-time low of -€84.7bn. The low buoyancy of exports, compared to that of imports, puts France in a recurren...
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Policy for establishing new farmers and transferring farms
There were more than 2.5 million farmers in France in 1955, but today there are only 496,000 left, according to the 2020 Agricultural Census. As a corollary to this trend, the number of farms in mainland France is falling, to around 389,000 in 2020 – almost 800,000 fewer than in 1980. Every year sin...
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