I. – The presentation of the accounts is subject to the approval of the principal’s authorising officer.
The principal’s authorising officer shall give the order to pay or recover to his public accountant and shall send him the relevant supporting documents only in respect of those elements of the presentation that he has approved.
II. – Before reintegration into its accounts, the principal’s accounting officer shall check the operations carried out by the agent in application of its obligations resulting from the decree no. 2012-1246 of 7 November 2012 relating to public budgetary and accounting management.
The accounting officer shall definitively integrate into its accounts the operations that have satisfied the aforementioned checks. He shall notify the principal’s authorising officer of the transactions that he has refused to reinstate definitively and shall enter them in a suspense account.
III. – The agents are subject to controls by the assigning public accountant and the principal’s authorising officer or their delegates with whom they are placed.
This control extends to the information systems used by the agents to carry out the operations entrusted to them.
They are also subject to checks by the authorities empowered to carry out on-site controls of the assigning public accountant or the authorising officer.