Publications

In conjunction with the regional audit chambers, the Court has sought, from the numerous data available and site inspections and checks, to describe and understand the distribution and allocation of resources between the different types of patients concerned by mental health and psychiatric care (fr...

The association “Vaincre la Mucoviscidose” (Overcoming Cystic Fibrosis) contributes to research against cystic fibrosis, for which it is the leading association funder in France, to the progress made in the knowledge of this rare genetic disease and improving the quality of care provided to patients...

The State has long entrusted organisations outside its administration with the performance of public service tasks. This extension of the public action by specialised bodies has developed in many sectors because of the expected benefits of greater autonomy and management flexibility in the implement...

Like all urban transport companies, the Paris Transport authority (RATP) relies on a strong human component: in 2018, its personnel costs represented €2.7 billion, i.e. 50% of operating expenses, for just over 46,000 agents. While progress has been made, particularly in terms of productivity, the or...

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...

In order to ensure that the French National Assembly is better informed, since 2019, the Cour des comptes has presented its annual report on local public finances in two parts. Pamphlet 1, focusing on the financial position in 2019, was published in June 2020. Pamphlets 2 and 3, published jointly, f...

For 40 years, the policy towards disadvantaged urban districts has set out to close the gaps between “targeted poor neighbourhoods” and others, by improving the living environment for their residents. The central government is putting forward €10 billion a year towards this aim, which is being combi...

Against the backdrop of a health crisis with major and long-term implications on public finances, the Cour des comptes has analysed the advantages and limitations of budgetary framework law and the governance of public budgets in France. Ten years after the framework was first implemented, when asse...

Created in 2001, SOS Education describes itself as “a militant association […] endeavouring fully independently to ensure that schools teach each child the basic skills and to strive for excellence”. It states that it is “totally transparent concerning its funding” and “funded exclusively by the gen...

The Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Control committee, chaired by Mr. Éric Woerth (Les Républicains, Oise) examined, during its meeting on 28th October 2020, an investigation report requested from the Cour des comptes under Section 2 of Article 58 of the Constitutional Bylaw on Budget Acts, r...