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The recommendations of the Court of Auditors were followed less than usual by their recipients during the health crisis, notes the institution in a report published on Tuesday.

“The share of recommendations not implemented fell from 19% in 2018 to 28% in 2021”, calculated the Court of Auditors, which this year looked into the execution of the recommendations made in 2017 and 2018. Among of the 70% of recommendations implemented, three-quarters are only partially implemented.

Non-prescriptive recommendations

The rue Cambon institution explains this gap by the difficulties of the administrations in dealing with the health crisis.

In 2020, she had thus decided to postpone her follow-up campaign for recommendations for a year so as not to overload them.

“We will have to remain vigilant next year” to ensure that this phenomenon does not last, declared Pierre Moscovici, first president of the Court of Auditors, during a press conference.

However, he recalled that it was "logical that recommendations are not followed" because the Court's recommendations are "not prescriptive" and must leave elected officials and the government the freedom to decide.

The health and solidarity sectors particularly affected

In 2021, only 16% of the recommendations are fully implemented, compared to 35% in 2018. Some 2% are “not applicable, either because they have become obsolete, or because their follow-up has proven to be ineffective. taking into account the evolution of the context”, specifies the financial jurisdiction.

The health and solidarity sectors, which are more exposed to the pandemic, have "a particularly low rate of implementation" of the recommendations, indicates the Court of Auditors, particularly in the field of visual care.

"While the Court's recommendations on the overall organization of the visual sector have, with some exceptions, been implemented by the public authorities, those relating to the control of expenditure have been less so and their effects are still limited,” the report said.

Globally stable figure

The Regional and Territorial Chambers of Accounts seem to have suffered less from Covid-19, their recommendations (issued between October 2018 and December 2020) being followed at 79% in 2021. “This relatively high rate has remained stable over the last four campaigns. followed”, welcomes the Court.

All financial jurisdictions combined, national and territorial, the percentage of recommendations followed stands at 77%, a stable rate since 2018. "This is an overall satisfactory figure but a figure on which we should not fall asleep", estimated Pierre Moscovici.

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