Article 13 Monitoring and evaluation

The Commission shall regularly monitor the implementation of the ISA programme. It shall explore synergies with complementary Community programmes.

The Commission shall report annually to the ISA Committee on the implementation of the ISA programme.

Solutions shall be subject to a review every two years.

The ISA programme shall be subject to an interim evaluation and a final evaluation, the results of which shall be communicated to the European Parliament and the Council by 31 December 2012 and 31 December 2015 respectively. In this context the responsible committee of the European Parliament may invite the Commission to present the evaluation results and answer questions put by its members.

The evaluations shall examine issues such as the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, utility, sustainability and coherence of the ISA programme’s actions and shall assess performance against the objective of the ISA programme and the rolling work programme. The final evaluation shall, in addition, examine the extent to which the ISA programme has achieved its objective.

The evaluations shall also examine the benefits of the actions to the Community for the advancement of common policies, identify areas for potential improvement and verify synergies with other Community initiatives in the area of cross-border and cross-sectoral interoperability.