The Caisse de la Dette (Commission of the Public Debt in French) was an international commission established by a decree issued by Egypt's ruler Khedive Ismail on May 2, 1876 to supervise the payment by the Egyptian government of the loans to the European governments following the construction of the Suez Canal. In the commission, were represented the governments of France, Britain, Austria, and Italy.
It was abolished by a bilateral agreement between the British and the Egyptian governments, signed on July 17, 1940,[1] due to Allied interest to improve relations with Cairo under the emergency situation of the Second World War.