The General Intervention of the State Administration (IGAE) is the internal control body of the State public sector and the management and management centre of public accounting.
As a control body, the IGAE is responsible for verifying, through prior control of legality, permanent financial control, public audit and financial control of grants, that the economic and financial activity of the state public sector is in line with the principles of legality, economy, efficiency and effectiveness.
As the managing and managing centre of public accounting, it is incumbent upon it to provide reliable, comprehensive, professional and independent accounting information on public management. In this regard, it has a responsibility to draw up the economic accounts of the public sector according to the methodology of the European System of National Accounts, the most specific and specific result of which is the determination of the figure, which is fundamental in the economic life of the nation, of public deficits, both of the total public administrations and of each of its subsectors.
Through these pages you can access the various publications, statistics and reports produced by the IGAE, reflecting the functions listed above and updated regulations in the field of economic and financial control and public accounting, directly or through their own databases.