#CPTJ2613792ASignature Delegations at the French Court of Accounts
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This order assigns permanent signing authority inside the French Court of Accounts. Didier Martin, acting as secretary general, may sign decisions and documents for service management, staff administration, spending, revenue, public contracts, and contract execution on behalf of the Court’s First President. The order also extends signing authority to deputy secretaries general and finance officials for specific budget, accounting, procurement, travel, and expense matters. It does not cover decisions on the appointment, assignment, or discipline of magistrates. The practical effect is internal: it keeps administrative and financial operations moving without requiring the First President to sign routine documents personally.
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Key Changes
- Grants Didier Martin permanent authority to sign administrative, staffing, financial, revenue, procurement, and contract documents for the Court of Accounts.
- Extends similar signing authority to deputy secretaries general for matters covered by the main delegations.
- Gives finance officials authority to sign budget, accounting, procurement, travel, and expense documents within their assigned responsibilities.
Obligations
What this law requires
The secretary general of the Cour des comptes may sign, on behalf of the First President, acts and decisions concerning service management, personnel management, spending and revenue authorization, public contracts, and contract-execution acts for the Cour des comptes, but must not sign acts or decisions concerning the appointment, assignment, or discipline of Cour des comptes magistrates.
The secretary general of the Cour des comptes may sign, on behalf of the First President as president of the High Council of regional audit chambers, acts and decisions concerning service management, personnel management, and spending and revenue authorization for regional and territorial audit chambers, but must not sign acts or decisions concerning the appointment, assignment, or discipline of magistrates of those chambers.
The deputy secretaries general of the Cour des comptes may sign the acts covered by Articles 1 and 2 within the same scope and exclusions, including the exclusion for magistrate appointment, assignment, and disciplinary decisions.
The director of financial affairs and management control may sign revenue and expenditure instruments, including grants, public contracts, contracts, agreements, and related amendments, only within his assigned responsibilities and only where they relate to execution or administrative management of credits under programme 164, “Cour des comptes et autres juridictions financières.”
The director of financial affairs and management control, acting as delegate for revenue and expenditure authorization, may enter supporting expenditure and revenue documents and other accounting documents into the State financial IT application only within the budget-execution scope assigned to the financial management unit under his responsibility.