Publications

On 27 May 2015, The Cour des comptes – French Supreme Audit Institution – hereby issues its audit opinion of the French Central Government Financial Statements for the year 2014, prepared in accordance with Article 58 of the Constitutional Bylaw Governing Finance Acts (LOLF). The Cour certifies that...

On 30 April 2015, the Cour des comptes issued a public report devoted to the Institut de france and the five academies: remarkable assets, a lack of robust management. Between 2005 and 2013, the Cour des Comptes issued a public report on the management of the Institut de France, the Académie Françai...

The Cour des comptes is releasing a report devoted to housing in the Île-de-France region. The Cour notes the limits of the policies carried out over the last two decades in three major areas: development, which governs and determines the production of housing units, social housing and private housi...

On 1 April 2015, the Cour des comptes issued a public report devoted to Radio France : the reasons for a crisis, avenues for reform, a joint stock company wholly owned by the state, 90% of whose turnover – €641 million in 2013 – comes from the public audiovisual contribution, namely the licence fee.

On 4 March 2015, the Cour des comptes issued a public report devoted to pupils’ individual monitoring: an ambition to be reconciled with the organisation of the education system. The target enshrined by the Law of 23 April 2005 and later reaffirmed by that of 8 July 2013, is to bring 100% of student...

The 2015 annual public report comprises two parts : - Part I which comprises two volumes (I-1 and I-2), outlines the observations and recommendations drawn from a selection of audits, surveys and evaluations carried out in 2014 by the Cour des comptes, regional and territorial courts of accounts, or...

For the first time, on 18 December 2014, the Cour des comptes issued a public report on Ensuring the future of additional private sector pensions (agirc and arrco), the additional pension schemes managed by the two main associations that act as pension funds for both executives and non executive emp...

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 ...

For the second year running, on 14 October 2014, the Cour des comptes issues a public report devoted to Local government finances. A work of collaboration between the Cour and the Regional and Territorial Audit Chambers (based on 136 audits of local authorities), this report aims to analyse the fina...