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  "legislation": "eur/2006/1692",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1692/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2006 establishing the second ‘Marco Polo’ programme for the granting of Community financial assistance to improve the environmental performance of the freight transport system (Marco Polo II) and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1382/2003 (Text with EEA relevance)",
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  "path": "article/14",
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  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Evaluation",
  "text": "1. The Commission shall inform the Committee at least twice a year concerning the financial execution of the Programme and give an update of the status of all actions financed under the Programme.\nThe Commission shall carry out both mid-term and final evaluations of the Programme in order to assess its contribution to the objectives of Community transport policy and the effective use made of the appropriations.\n2. The Commission shall present to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions a Communication on the results achieved by the Marco Polo Programmes for the period 2003-2010. It shall do so before drawing up a proposal for a third Marco Polo Programme and shall take account of the Communication’s findings when drawing up that proposal.\n2a. The Communication referred to in paragraph 2 shall in particular deal with the following:\nthe impact of this Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 923/2009 of the European Parliament and the Council of 16 September 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 1692/2006 establishing the second ‘Marco Polo’ programme for the granting of Community financial assistance to improve the environmental performance of the freight transport system (Marco Polo II) ,\nthe experience of the Executive Agency for Competition and Innovation with programme management,\nthe need to differentiate between transport modes with regard to the conditions for funding, on the basis of safety, environmental performance and energy efficiency,\nthe effectiveness of traffic avoidance actions,\nthe need to set up demand-driven assistance at the application stage, taking into account the needs of small and micro transport enterprises,\nthe recognition of economic recession as an exceptional reason for extending the duration of actions,\nthe lowering of the eligibility thresholds for product-specific actions,\nthe possibility of indicating the targets for minimum funding thresholds for proposed actions in terms of energy efficiency and environmental benefits in addition to tonne-kilometres shifted,\nthe appropriateness of including the transport unit in the definition of the term ‘ freight ’ ,\nthe availability of complete yearly overviews of actions which have been co-financed,\nthe possibility of ensuring consistency between the Programme, the Logistics Action Plan and the TEN-T by taking the appropriate measures in order to coordinate the allocation of community funds, in particular for Motorways of the Sea,\nthe possibility of making costs incurred in a third country eligible if the action is carried out by undertakings from a Member State,\nthe need to take into account the specific characteristics of the inland waterway sector and its small- and medium-sized enterprises, for example by way of a dedicated programme for the inland waterway sector,\nthe possibility of extending the Programme to neighbouring countries; and,\nthe possibility of further adapting the Programme to the insular and archipelagic Member States.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
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      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 923/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 1692/2006 establishing the second ‘Marco Polo’ programme for the granting of Community financial assistance to improve the environmental performance of the freight transport system (Marco Polo II) (Text with EEA relevance)."
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      "text": "Inserted by Regulation (EC) No 923/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 1692/2006 establishing the second ‘Marco Polo’ programme for the granting of Community financial assistance to improve the environmental performance of the freight transport system (Marco Polo II) (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 266, 9.10.2009, p. 1 ."
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