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Higher education in the plastic arts
The President of the Senate Finance Committee requested, in accordance with Article 58-2 of the French Budget Act (LOLF) of August the 1st 2001 on finance laws, that the Court carries out an enquiry into higher education in the plastic arts. In this context, it was particularly wanted from the Court...
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2020 Postgraduate Research Grant Programme
The European Court of Auditors and the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) have set up a grant scheme for researchers in the field of European public finance and the EU budget. The aim is to promote original research into the impact of public finance on European culture, society and po...
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2020 ECA Award for research on public sector auditing
European Court of AuditorsThe European Court of Auditors (ECA) is lauching its 2020 ECA Award for Research on Public Sector Auditing. As in previous years, the award inteds to provide an incentive and recognition for research on public audit-related issues, with a specific focus this year on EU added value. The 2020 ECA Awar...
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The national union for the blind and visually impaired - Fiscal years 2012 to 2016
In an opinion published in 2014, the Court indicated that the use of funds resulting from appeals to public generosity issued by the National Union for the Blind and Visually Impaired (Unadev) was not consistent with the objectives presented by the association. The principal objective of this audit ...
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The French Court of Accounts Registry’s procedures certified with the ISO 9001 international standard
On 14 June 2018, the French Court of Accounts Registry’s procedures were deemed to meet the international standards and thus they have been certified with the international standard ISO 9001 (2015 version).
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European defense equipment cooperation
France set aside about €10 billion a year on defense equipment projects during the period covered by the current Military Programming Law (LPM) i.e., 2014-2019. The LPM bill being debated in Parliament provides for an increase in these investments for the period 2019-2023, with an annual average of ...
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The Ministry of Justice's real estate policy
The courts and prisons in the Ministry of Justice's real estate portfolio, which covers 5.5 million sq. m and is valued at €10 billion, contribute directly to the public service of justice. Faced with considerable demands and the growing cost of the public-private partnership (PPP) rents it has take...
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Local state organisations
"The regional administration of the French Republic is performed by local authorities and by local state organisations": this principle, enshrined in the Law of 6 February 1992, underlines the paradoxical situation of local state organisations. A lack of resources means that at times they are strugg...
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The future of health insurance
The health insurance system created in 1945 has enabled France to show good results in terms of life expectancy. However, the prevalence of practices at risk, a high infant mortality rate and increasing inequalities in access to care, qualify these results, which, moreover, are obtained at the expen...
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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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