The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has organized, since 2009, an annual meeting of budget officials of parliaments and independent fiscal institutions (IFIs) of the thirty-eight member countries of the Organisation. These meetings combine the subjects of public finance governance (medium-term planning, management by performance, principles that should apply to independent institutions, etc.), economic issues (potential growth, relation between debt and growth etc.) and practical questions (access to information, communication, etc.). The geographical scope of these meetings is broader than that of the European Union: it includes in particular the United States, Canada, Japan and European countries not belonging to the EU.
With the creation of new IFIs, the number of participants in these meetings has risen sharply in recent years. Around one hundred representatives of the member countries participated in the seminar held in Paris in mid-April 2016.
These meetings are an opportunity for the HCFP to present its model of an IFI created attached to a superior control institution (the Cour des comptes), to build relationships with counterparts in other countries and to carry out exchanges on good practices.