Monaco’s audit authority, the Commission Supérieure des Comptes, has launched its own website, giving residents, journalists and international observers direct access for the first time to its reports on how public money is spent, in French, English and Italian.

Developed with the government’s Interministerial Delegation for Digital Transition, the site at cscomptes.gouv.mc brings together the Commission’s annual public reports, details of its audits, the laws that govern its work and news of its international activities.

Watching over public funds

Established under Article 42 of the Constitution, the Commission audits the accounts and financial management of the State, the Municipality and Monaco’s public bodies. Its remit also extends to organisations that receive public funding and to unlisted companies in which the State holds more than half the capital.

Its six members, appointed by Sovereign Ordinance for five-year terms, are chosen for their expertise in public accounts and swear an oath before the Prince to act impartially and independently. Until now, its annual findings have been published as an annex to the Journal de Monaco, the Principality’s official gazette.

A step towards greater transparency

Bringing the reports together in one place, in three languages, is intended to make the oversight of public spending easier to follow, both for residents and public managers in Monaco and for international institutions and fellow audit bodies abroad.

The launch follows the redesign of the government’s main website, gouv.mc, earlier this year. Both projects are part of a wider effort to make Monaco’s public administration more accessible and transparent.

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