The health crisis has increased the share of advice not implemented to 28%.
Do its reports end up forgotten in a drawer and its recommendations with it? Each year, when examining the accounts of public bodies and also writing reports, the Court of Auditors and its 23 regional or territorial chambers issue around 2,500 “recommendations” to public decision-makers. Advices “which do not give rise to any form of constraint“, insisted Pierre Moscovici, the first president of the Court, on the occasion of the publication of a report on the subject. “We are here to inform the decision. The recommendations are not prescriptive. I do not believe in the government of experts, it is of course the politician who remains the decision maker.
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However, magistrates have a few levers to make themselves heard. Faced with a lack of response from the audited body (local authority, parapublic body, etc.), they can trigger specific audits. A situation that is always uncomfortable for the executives in place because inevitably…
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