Publications

Covering 2% of the national territory, Île-de-France accounts for 18% of the French population, 22% of jobs and 32% of French GDP. In this respect, the operation and maintenance of Île-de-France’s road network often fail to live up to its strategic nature, its level of use and the challenges it face...

Pursuant to the law of 19 May 2023, the Cour des comptes conducted an assessment of the organisation of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, which took place in France in the summer of 2024. In light of the objectives set by their organisers, the Games can be considered a source of satisfaction. ...

Faced with deteriorating public finances and a difficult political and social context, the financial jurisdictions are reaffirming their role as watchdogs of public action and publishing their annual report on the follow-up to recommendations. Each year, the Cour des comptes and the regional and ter...

The social and solidarity economy (SSE) has benefited from a unified framework for action since the framework Act of 31 July 2014. SSE players are distinguished from the conventional economy by their business model, which seeks to reconcile economic activity and social utility through democratic gov...

Following on from its 2022 report on the State's policy in favour of monumental heritage, the Cour des comptes has conducted an investigation into the same subject from the perspective of local authorities. The study was carried out by eight regional audit chambers on a representative sample of some...

As warnings from the international scientific community (IPCC, IPBES) multiply, the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss intensify, and public policies implemented to address these challenges take on increasing importance, the Court of Accounts has published the first annual report by fin...

The organisation of urban public transport is the responsibility of the local authorities, which set the fares. As fare revenues are not sufficient to cover all costs - they only account for 41% of operating expenditure, excluding investment - they supplement funding by other means. To do this, muni...

The Paris Brain Institute Foundation (ICM), recognised as a public interest organisation in 2006, began its scientific activities in 2010 at the centre of the same name located at La Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris. Its aim is to bring together fundamental research, clinical research and innovation at a ...

Healthcare products, defined as medicines and medical devices for individual use, are prescribed and dispensed to patients in order to diagnose or treat them. In 2023, almost 15,000 drugs references were covered by the national health insurance system. Medical devices, on the other hand, comprise a ...

This third report by the Cour des comptes, following those of 2020 and 2022, comes just as the towers of Notre-Dame, closed since the fire on 15 April 2019, are preparing to reopen for the European Heritage Days on 20 and 21 September. The Cour des comptes reviewed the completion of the restoration ...