Article 5 Multiannual evaluation programme

A multiannual evaluation programme covering a period of five years shall be established by the Commission, where appropriate after consulting Frontex and Europol, not later than six months before the beginning of the following five-year period. That implementing act shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 21(2). The Commission shall transmit the multiannual evaluation programme to the European Parliament and to the Council.

Each Member State shall be evaluated during each five-year period covered by the multiannual evaluation programme. The multiannual evaluation programme shall list the order of Member States to be evaluated each year. The order in which the Member States are to be evaluated shall take into account the time which has elapsed since the previous evaluation and the balance between the different parts of the Schengen acquis to be evaluated.

The multiannual evaluation programme may be adapted, where necessary, in accordance with the procedure referred to in paragraph 1.

The multiannual evaluation programme may contain a reference to thematic evaluations as referred to in Article 6(1)(b).

The first multiannual evaluation programme shall be established by 27 May 2014. The starting date of that programme shall be 27 November 2014 and the end date shall be 31 December 2019.