The High Council of Public Finances (HCFP) (French: Haut Conseil des Finances Publiques) is a French independent fiscal oversight body.
[1] Its aim is to evaluate the assumptions made by the government in relation to the budgets and to ensure the coherence of public finances with the European budgetary agreements and pacts to which France is party.
The HCFP operates under the responsibility of the French Court of Audit.
[2] body created by the Organic Law 2012-1403 in December 2012 by the French government in the framework European Union budgetary coordination.
The HCFP operates under the authority granted to it by; The HCFP reports of the following variables used by the government when setting the budget; The membership comprises 11 members who are not remunerated.