An overview of how auditors across the European Union scrutinise public health has been published today by the European Court of Auditors (ECA) on behalf of the Contact Committee of EU supreme audit institutions (SAIs). Altogether 24 SAIs, including the Cour des comptes, have contributed to this sec...

The Cour des comptes, France’s supreme audit institution, will start to control the fundraising, the management of the raised funds and their use in the rebuilding of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris. This control will last until the end of the reconstruction and lead to a yearly report.

On 28-29 June, the Association of Supreme Francophone Audit Institutions (AISCCUF) organised the first AISCCUF conference for young people. Approximately 50 people under 45 years of age with less than 5 years of experience attended; they were extremely motivated and came from more than 20 different ...

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).

The Cour des comptes – France’s supreme audit institution – hereby presents its report on the central government budget for 2016. The report contains a chapter on budgetary relations between central government and its implementing agencies, plus 62 budget execution memos. It will be supplemented in ...

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 o...

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 optimisa...

In 2013, the State undertook a very-high-speed broadband programme (Plan France très haut debit), whose objective was to reach 100% of the 35 million households and businesses in France by 2022, with 80% of the coverage provided with fibre to the home (FTTH) networks. This deployment is supported...

Is the State a good shareholder? To answer this question using a strictly pragmatic approach, the Cour des comptes reviewed State shareholdings in companies over the period 2010-2016. It defined State Shareholder in a broad sense to include: the Agence des participations de l’État (APE), the Cais...