Between 2017 and mid-2023, more than €3 billion in government funding was committed to the cultural sector outside the budget of the ministry of culture, which is almost equivalent to one year’s funding for the ministry’s cultural mission. On an unprecedented scale, these exceptional appropriations ...
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In the first part of its annual report on local government finances, published on 4 July this year, the Court of Accounts showed that local authorities as a whole were in a very favourable financial position in 2022, as they had been the previous year. In this second report, the Court points out tha...
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Value Added Tax (VAT) is a general consumption tax charged directly to customers on the goods they consume or the services they use in France. The substantial changes in its budgetary and legal framework, as well as recent developments in the economic situation, marked by the health crisis, the ener...
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The health crisis has recently reminded us that waste management, and in particular the public waste management service (SPGD), is an essential service provided by municipalities or their groupings. The wide variety of materials and objects that make up the 39 million tonnes of household and similar...
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With a public deficit of 6.4% of GDP in 2021, i.e., more than double that of 2017, and a public debt of more than 110% of GDP, France is emerging from the health crisis with one of the most deteriorated public finance situations in the euro area. The report published today by the Court of Accounts i...
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The Cour des comptes hereby publishes its annual report on the implementation of the Social Security Finance Acts. Despite the persistence and amount of Social Security’s abnormal deficits, the latter receded only slightly in 2014, as in 2013. A marked slowdown in the speed of the deficits’ reductio...
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The 2023 Annual Public Report, published today, in figures: 572 pages (-18.52 % compared to 2022), including 186 pages of responses from administrations 26 audit recommendations The result of the work of the seven chambers of the Court, fifteen regional Chambers of - Accounts (CRCs), eight inte...
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The Court of Accounts has published its 2022 central government Budget Report, accompanied by 64 budget performance analyses. The year 2022 was marked by a further increase in government spending, despite a sharp fall in spending on health emergencies and stimulus plan measures. This increase can be...
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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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In an electricity sector that is open to competition at European level, France has maintained or created major public intervention tools – in connection with the “New organisation of the electricity market” (NOME) law of 7 December 2010 – to meet several objectives: to allow competition between supp...
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