The Institute and the academies operate freely and are financially independent under the sole control of the Court of Auditors. Honouring for the second time the mandate it is set by law, the Court again examined the management of the Quai de Conti institutions and the use of their heritage between ...
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In an economic environment where capital, companies and high-skilled individuals are mobile, multinational firms are looking for tax optimisation and there is fierce tax competition between countries to attract companies, deeper European integration and the combating of tax avoidance and optimisatio...
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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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In October 2014, the Cour des comptes issued a public report devoted to High-speed rail : a model extended beyond its relevance. The history of high-speed rail in France is the history of the convergence, 30 years ago of an avant-garde technology with a large public. Indeed, many French people have ...
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In order to protect gamblers from the risks of addiction and to prevent fraudulent or criminal activities, gambling has been prohibited in principle since 1836, except where express derogations have been granted on condition that public order is maintained. Gambling activities are divided into four ...
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Operated by SNCF Mobilités, the 7,000 trains and 1,300 buses that go to make up Regional Express Transport (Transports Express Régionaux – TER) provide services to periurban areas, regional cities and isolated territories, carrying some 900,000 passengers a day. The assessment of TER carried out bet...
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Sport policy, which has all the characteristics of a public service mission based on the no-tion of general interest, falls under the general jurisdiction of the Central Government. However, this jurisdiction is shared and there is a plurality of stakeholders in the govern-ance of sport, as provided...
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The First President of the Court of Accounts was heard on 10 January by the Senate's Committee on Culture, Education and Communication and then by the National Assembly’s Committee on Cultural Affairs and Education. These hearings follow the submission to Parliament of a progress report on the prepa...
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Social housing plays a vital role in France: the 4.8 million social housing units account for one-sixth of all housing units and about half of all rental stock. In 2014, €17.5 billion in public aid was allocated to it. In a context of citizens’ high expectations and the State’s sustained action over...
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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...
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