Publications

The Cour des comptes (the French Court of Auditors) is making its report public on the French government’s budget in 20171, along with 66 analyses on execution of the budget. Budget execution in 2017 saw stronger economic growth than expected by the Initial Finance Law (LFI). In spite of the resulti...

The Cour des comptes (the French Court of Auditors) is publishing a report on the quality of accounting for government agencies that are required to have their accounts certified by an external auditor, pursuant to Article L. 132-2-2 of the French Financial Jurisdiction Code. This exercise is part o...

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 ...

Valorisation of public research refers to the way in which knowledge developed by researchers in public structures is used by companies or the researchers themselves to produce economic and social value. This may be achieved via partnerships between public laboratories and companies, technology tr...

The 2018 annual public report is divided into three volumes: - volume I sets out the observations and recommendations resulting from a selection of controls and investigations conducted in 2017 by the Cour des comptes and the regional and territorial courts of audit; - volume II presents the follow-...

Eight years after publishing a report entitled “Household Wealth” (2009), the Council of Mandatory Contributions focused its research in 2017 on the taxation of household capital. This study focuses on all taxes and social contributions levied on holdings, financial income and the transfer of elemen...

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...

"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...

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...

Admission post-bac (post-high school admission, or APB) is a public digital platform used by high school graduates to submit applications with a view to entering first-year courses in higher education. It contains two algorithms: an allocation algorithm, which cross-references the preferences of sch...