In September 2017, in a report commissioned by the Prime Minister, economist Jean Pisani-Ferry considered that France was suffering from a number of structural weaknesses, including a lack of skills among its working population. He felt that this was preventing us from meeting the major economic cha...
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The Court of Accounts has published the central government financial statements audit, drawn up each year pursuant to Article 58 of the Organic Act on Budget Acts (“LOLF”). The Court certifies that, subject to the impact of the issues described in the “Basis for Qualified Opinion” section of its rep...
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The Court of Accounts was asked by the National Assembly’s Public Policy Evaluation and Audit Committee to investigate the State’s policy for managing the 192,000 buildings in its stock. This report comprises three sections, devoted respectively to a description of this very large and highly diversi...
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Being a 120-year-old association, the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (LDH) [Human Rights League] can count on a large network of more than 8,000 volunteers spread in local sections throughout the country. Their long-term involvement, including financial support (many are making donations to the League ...
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The Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Control committee, chaired by Mr. Éric Woerth (Les Républicains, Oise) examined, during its meeting on 28th October 2020, an investigation report requested from the Cour des comptes under Section 2 of Article 58 of the Constitutional Bylaw on Budget Acts, r...
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Hospital-university (HU) staff, who are professors, researchers and hospital practitioners, constitute an elite body, in both university teaching hospitals and universities alike. They are few in number (less than 10,000, of which about 6,300 are tenured) and are selected after an extremely demandin...
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This review, conducted by an inter-jurisdictional panel bringing together the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regional Audit Chamber and the six thematic chambers of the Court of Accounts, takes the form of an in itinere assessment - carried out during the implementation of the plan being evaluated. Anno...
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Spread across three oceans, the French overseas territories, despite their legal, demographic, cultural, economic and social heterogeneity, are faced with common difficulties, such as unemployment and poverty rates that are systematically higher than in mainland France. Training students and the dev...
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The Cour des comptes hereby issues its public report, a work of collaboration with the regional audit courts, on the financial situation and management of local authorities and their public institutions. Local governments (APUL - administration publique locale) represent 20% of expenditure and 9% of...
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