The accounting officer is required to exercise :
1° In respect of revenue, control of the authorisation to collect revenue and the collection of debts and the regularity of reductions and cancellations of revenue orders, within the limits of the information available to him;
2° In respect of expenditure, checking that the authorising officer or his delegate is in a position to authorise expenditure, that appropriations are available, that expenditure is correctly charged to the relevant chapters according to its nature or purpose, that the debt is valid in accordance with the conditions set out in point 4 and that the payment discharges the debt;
3° With regard to assets, control of the conservation of rights, liens and mortgages and of the conservation of the assets for which it keeps the stock accounts;
4° With regard to the validity of the claim, verifying that the service has been provided, that the calculations used to calculate the amount are correct and that the rules on limitation and forfeiture have been applied.
Where, in the course of his checks, the Accounting Officer finds irregularities or inaccuracies in the certifications issued by the Chairman of the Agency, he shall suspend payment of the expenditure. He shall inform the President thereof.
Where the Accounting Officer has suspended payment of expenditure, the President of the Agency may, in writing and under his responsibility, require the Accounting Officer to pay. The accounting officer shall comply with the requisition and report to the Minister responsible for the budget, who shall forward the requisition order to the Court of Auditors.
By way of derogation from the provisions of the previous paragraph, the accounting officer must refuse to comply with the requisition order when the suspension of payment is motivated by the absence of justification of the service rendered, the non-dischargeable nature of the payment or the lack of available funds.
In such cases, the accounting officer shall immediately report to the Minister responsible for the budget.