Supplementary note submitted by the European
Commission (ESF 19E)
MID-TERM
REVIEW
The annexed text describes the calendar for
the mid-term review. This refers to the re-examination of all
programming documents and, if necessary, adapted at the initiative
of the Member State or the Commission in agreement with the Member
State. This re-examination shall be done in the light of the mid-term
evaluation, which examines the initial results of the assistance,
their relevance and the extent to which the targets have been
achieved, as well as the use made financial resources.
Four per cent of the commitment appropriations
("performance reserve") shall be allocated after the
assessment of the performance of each programme on the basis of
a limited number of monitoring indicators, reflecting effectiveness,
management and financial implementation, measuring the mid-term
results in relation to their specific initial targets. This allocation
of the performance reserve shall be done by the Commission at
mid-term and not later than 31 March 2004, in close consultation
with the Member State concerned, under each objective, on the
basis of proposals from the Member State.
1. Legal base in Regulation 1260/99
— Article 10: "subsequently before
the mid-term review referred to in Article 42, after consulting
the Member States, Commission shall publish broad indicative
guidelines on relevant and agreed Community policies in relation
to the Objectives."
— Article 11: "Additionality
shall be verified: (b) A mid-term verification no later than
three years after the approval of the Community Support Framework
or single Programming Document and as a general rule, no later
than 31 December 2003."
— Article 14 §2: "Community
Support Frameworks, operational programmes and single programming
documents shall be re-examined and if necessary adapted
at the initiative of the Member states or the Commission in agreement
with the Member state, in accordance with this title following
the mid-term evaluation referred to in Article 42."
— Article 42: "Mid-term evaluation
shall be carried out under the responsibility of the managing
authority, . . . And then sent to the Commission, as a general
rule, three years after the adoption of the assistance and
no later than 31 December 2003, with a view to the revision
referred to in Article 14(2).
The Commission shall examine the relevance
and quality of the evaluation on the basis of criteria defined
beforehand by the Commission and the Member State, with a view
to reviewing the assistance and allocating the reserve."
— Article 44: "Each Member State
in close consultation with the Commission, shall asses under each
objective and no later than 31 December 2003 the performance
of each operational programmes . . . At the mid-term and no
later than 31 March 2004, the Commission shall allocate, in
close consultation with the Member State, on the basis of proposals
from each Member state, taking into account its specific institutional
features and their corresponding programming, the commitments
appropriations referred to in article 7(5) to the operational
programmes or single programming documents or their priorities
which are considered to be successful. The operational programmes
of single programming documents shall be adapted in accordance
with articles 14 and 15."
2. Calendar
— The Commission will publish the first
semester of 2003 broad indicative guidelines for the MTR.
— The Commission will follow continuously
throughout 2003 the evolution of the mid-term evaluation (in
evaluation meetings and in PMCs where the evaluation is discussed).
— During the annual meetings: first
official talks with the Member State on their first ideas on the
mid-term evaluation and on the allocation of the performance reserve.
These meetings will have to be organised in September or October
2003.
— The result of the mid-term evaluation
and the assessment of the Member State of the performance
of the programme in question, should be received by the Commission
before 31 December 2003.
— The Commission will examine
(on the basis of criteria defined beforehand by the Commission
and the Member State) the relevance and quality of the evaluation
and the Member States' proposals for reviewing the programmes
and allocating the performance reserve.
— Review the assistance and allocate
the reserve before 31 March 2004.
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