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Event

COUR DES COMPTES 17.11.21

The First President of the French Court of Accounts elected to the Board of Auditors of the United Nations

The UN General Assembly today elected the First President of the Court of Accounts as a new member of the Board of Auditors of the United Nations. In July 2022, Pierre Moscovici will succeed his German counterpart, Kay Scheller, for a six-year term. He will join the other two current members of the Committee, whose respective terms will still last two and four years: the Comptroller General of Chile and the Auditor General of China.

COUR DES COMPTES 25.02.21

JF2025: the new strategic project of the French Cour des comptes

On Feb. 4th, the First President of the French Cour des comptes presented the new Strategic Project of the Court and the Regional and Territorial Chambers of Accounts (CRTC) for the next five years.
Mr. Moscovici underlined that French financial jurisdictions (JF) are at a pivotal point in their history, more than 2 centuries after the restoration of the Court in its modern pattern and 40 years after the creation of the CRTC.

Publications

COUR DES COMPTES 09.03.2022

Preparation and implementation of the recovery plan

The health crisis of 2020 led to an 8% contraction in French GDP - the largest since 1946 implemented a €100bn recovery plan (of which €39.4bn should be paid for by the European Union), with the aim of rapidly returning to pre-crisis levels of economic activity and contributing to the transformation...

Vue d’une banderole « France Relance » OceanProd / Adobe Stock

COUR DES COMPTES 28.02.2022

Medical care of the elderly in nursing homes (Ehpads)

Estimated at 2.5 million in 2015, the population of dependent older people could reach 4 million by 2050. Despite the desire of French authorities to promote a “shift towards home”, établissements d’hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes (Ehpads, “residential establishments for dependent elder...

Vue de résidents d’un Ehpad ME / Adobe Stock

COUR DES COMPTES 24.02.2022

The energy cheque

Created to replace social energy tariffs, the energy cheque aims to combat the effects of fuel poverty by offering low-income households assistance in paying their energy bills. In the report published today, the Court of Accounts makes a series of observations which it believes justify a review of ...

Vue d’une facture de gaz Richard Villalon / Adobe Stock

COUR DES COMPTES 23.02.2022

Public debt administration and the efficiency of Central Government funding by Agence France Trésor (AFT)

Created on 8 February 2001, AFT is responsible for Central Government debt administration. It has three objectives: the issue of securities (governed each year by the Budget Act), the minimisation of the cost of these issues and the management of the related risks. Although its robust strategy enabl...

Vue du ministère de l'économie, des finances et de la relance Kovalenkovpetr / Adobe Stock

COUR DES COMPTES 09.02.2022

Children's health

On 1 January 2021, there were 9.4 million children under 12 in France, representing 14% of the population. Their current state of health, and their care covered by the health system, will be one of the main determinants of the state of health of future generations of adults, and therefore of health ...