46 billion euros in 2008 is considered opaque

15 of traffic contraventions cancelled in Paris

Controlled for the first time by the Court, the system of the traffic police fines (1.46 billion euros in 2008) is considered opaque. The State is unable to say how many fines are imposed each year to drivers, nor the amount or nature. Managed by different services (Ministry of the Interior, radars, municipal policies, etc.), they are identified by software that does not communicate with each other. This situation creates a high opacity and well fed "suspicion", comments on the Court, who want proof of the frequency of the sanctions overturned by the Prefecture of Paris: more than 15 of the fines have been cancelled in 2007, more than 525,000 were directly by the services of the Prefecture, outside any legal framework. To remedy, the Court requests the application of the circular of 2002, imposing that the power to classify without is within the exclusive purview of the Ministry of the Interior.

Air traffic controllers: more benefits

For the third time in eight years, the Court takes the functioning "opaque" Directorate General of civil aviation (DGCA), charged to promote absenteeism of air traffic controllers, productivity and security. At the centre of its critics: the organisation of working time in control centres, run by the controllers. French air traffic controllers are more long days as their European colleagues - up to 8 h 15 min by vacation, against 5 h 30 min for colleagues of Eurocontrol-, they work on average less than 100 days per year. And, thanks to the practices already convicted in the previous reports of 2002 and 2006, and never disposed of because of the inability of the DGCA to control the actual time of its agents. The Court also denounced the agreement triennial protocols intended to prevent the strikes, which have allowed the unions of controllers to obtain an upgrade their statutory index, set to join the the Polytechnique (whereas they do not have the title of engineers), accompanied by inflation premiums. And this, in exchange for productivity gains little or not made and then the DGAC has deficits.

The surprising use of some police cars

The fleet of the central services of the national police (1.469 vehicles) is sometimes unjustified, and often dangerous use. Unjustified, because the officers use it for personal purposes "without formal permission or insurance." Some 30 vehicles are also developed at the permanent disposal of persons did no service to the Ministry of the Interior (former President of the Republic, former Prime Ministers, administrative officials, etc.). The Court has yet "had knowledge of no text governing these available updates requested orally by the Office of the Minister." In addition, the high number of accidents reveals a "little respectful of the rules of safety driving". In 2007, nearly 80 vehicles for central services (79) have been injured! The cars available to the firms are subject to an accident every six and a half months, on average.

Costly retreats of the EESC

The Fund of the former members of the economic, social and environmental Council is particularly unbalanced. Despite a grant from the State that represents almost a quarter of its resources and the massive use to a reserve fund, it displays a more deficit of EUR 4 million. And the resources of the reserve fund are depleted quickly: he could "disappear on the horizon 2013" If no action is taken. The Court points "a certain budgetary risk": the total liabilities off balance sheet of the State for the rights acquired by 390 former members is estimated at EUR 218 million. To avoid "leakage in front of which the State will bear alone the consequences", the report recommends playing the age and/or the amount of the contributions either to evolve the device "to a complementary capitalization defined contribution plan.

Veterans of the colonies: persistent injustice

The Court denounced "of persistent problems on equal treatment" for Veterans of the former French colonies, evoked injustice in 2006 by the film "Indigenous", Rachid Bouchareb. Despite the measures taken in 2002 and 2007, the amount of military retirement pensions to 50,000 Africans, Maghreb or Asian remains "very important offset" with those that are attributed to persons of French nationality: 19.971 euros per year on average for the French, 1.276 euro for the other. Differences "of the order of 1 to 10" are found at equivalent rank: 646 euro for a Moroccan Sergeant, 7.512 euros for a French Sergeant. This is due to the fact that the value of the points, the index and the legal rules for calculating the amount of the pension was frozen ("crystallized") on the independence of these countries.

The State does not prevent over-indebtedness

Subject: the absence of a policy of prevention and strategic Steering of the State, which simply delegate the Secretariat of the commissions to the Bank of France (commissions formed according to individual choices, shifting eligibility criteria, enlarged responsibility of officers of the Bank of France, etc.). Furthermore, the costs incurred by the Bank of France are high and uncontrolled. Banks must participate in the costs of operation of the commissions. Prevention, the Court is favourable to the hardening of the measures included in the reform of the consumer credit. A positive file "could illuminate the risk-taking of banks," says. If the Parliament creates a commission to study, it will have to decide in "soon time." If the new framework of faithfulness and credit cards is ineffective, should "study the possibility of ban term".

The systematic abuses of the weapons programs

Systematic underestimation of budgets, technological brinksmanship, evil contracts negotiated: the Court is not soft on the conduct of major weapons programs, although note, reforms are going in the right direction. First investor of the State, the Ministry of defence on average devotes ten billion euros per year to its equipment. After through since 2005 all of the programs of more than 5 billion euros (with the exception of the FREMM frigates) and pointed to the execution of the laws of programming 1997-2002 and 2003-2008, the Court concluded that all these programs have cost more expensive and lasted longer than expected.

Education: the anomaly of the inspectors of Paris

The wake-up call is that 22 people, but it is explosive. Inspectors from the Academy of Paris saw over time their management evolve disconnected from any function inspection appointment and employment conditions. Over a decade, the numbers have tripled and these appointments were used to place staff of political authorities. Many of them have been paid - 4.500 euros net per month - even though they had no function, which notes the report "may only call the most criticism, without prejudice to judicial suites that could be given". The Ministry of National Education has committed since their removal.