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Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 of 20 September 2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) (repealed)
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1.For each rural development programme a Monitoring Committee shall be set up within a maximum of three months following the decision approving the programme.
Each Monitoring Committee shall draw up its rules of procedure within the institutional, legal and financial framework of the Member State concerned and adopt them in agreement with the Managing Authority in order to perform its duties in accordance with this Regulation.
2.Each Monitoring Committee shall be chaired by a representative of the Member State or of the Managing Authority.
Its composition shall be decided by the Member State and shall include the partners referred to in Article 6(1).
At their own initiative, Commission representatives may participate in the work of the Monitoring Committee in an advisory capacity.
3.Member States with regional programmes may establish a national Monitoring Committee to coordinate the implementation of these programmes in relation to the national strategy and the uptake of financial resources.
The Monitoring Committee shall satisfy itself as to the effectiveness of the implementation of the rural development programme. To that end, the Monitoring Committee:
shall be consulted, within four months of the decision approving the programme, on the selection criteria for financed operations. The selection criteria shall be revised according to programming needs;
shall periodically review progress made towards achieving the specific targets of the programme, on the basis of the documents submitted by the Managing Authority;
shall examine the results of implementation, particularly achievement of the targets set for each axis and ongoing evaluations;
shall consider and approve the annual progress report and the last progress report before they are sent to the Commission;
may propose to the Managing Authority any adjustment or review of the programme aimed at achieving the Objectives of the EAFRD defined in Article 4 or improving its management, including its financial management;
[F1shall consider and approve any substantial proposal for changes in rural development programmes.]
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1.The Managing Authority and the Monitoring Committee shall monitor the quality of programme implementation.
2.The Managing Authority and the Monitoring Committee shall carry out monitoring of each rural development programme by means of financial, output and result indicators.
The common monitoring and evaluation framework shall be drawn up in cooperation between the Commission and the Member States and adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 90(2). The framework shall specify a limited number of common indicators applicable to each programme.
1.The progress, efficiency and effectiveness of rural development programmes in relation to their objectives shall be measured by means of indicators relating to the baseline situation as well as to the financial execution, outputs, results and impact of the programmes.
2.Each rural development programme shall specify a limited number of additional indicators specific to that programme.
3.Where the nature of the assistance so permits, the data relating to the indicators shall be broken down by sex and age of the beneficiaries.
1.For the first time in 2008 and by 30 June each year, the Managing Authority shall send the Commission an annual progress report on the implementation of the programme. The Managing Authority shall send a last progress report on the implementation of the programme to the Commission by 30 June 2016.
2.Each annual progress report shall contain the following elements:
(a)any change to the general conditions having a direct impact on the conditions for implementing the programme as well as any change to Community and national policies affecting consistency between the EAFRD and other financial instruments;
(b)the progress of the programme in relation to the objectives set, on the basis of output and result indicators;
(c)the financial implementation of the programme giving, for each measure, a statement of the expenditure paid to beneficiaries; if the programme covers regions eligible under the Convergence Objective, expenditure shall be identified separately;
(d)a summary of the ongoing evaluation activities in accordance with Article 86(3);
(e)the steps taken by the Managing Authority and the Monitoring Committee to ensure the quality and effectiveness of programme implementation, in particular:
monitoring and evaluation measures;
a summary of the major problems encountered in managing the programme and any measures taken, including in response to comments made under Article 83;
use of technical assistance;
steps taken to ensure that the programme is publicised in accordance with Article 76;
(f)a declaration on compliance with Community policies in the context of the support, including identification of the problems encountered and the measures adopted to deal with them;
(g)where applicable, re-utilisation of aid recovered under Article 33 of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005.
3.The report shall be judged admissible with a view to applying Article 26 of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 if it contains all the elements listed in paragraph 2 and enables programme implementation to be appraised.
The Commission shall have two months to comment on the annual progress report after it has been sent by the Managing Authority. That time limit shall be increased to five months for the last report of the programme. If the Commission does not respond within the time limit set, the report shall be deemed accepted.
4.Details concerning annual progress reports for specific programmes pursuant to Article 66(3) shall be fixed in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 90(2).
1.Each year, on presentation of the annual progress report, the Commission and the Managing Authority shall examine the main results of the previous year, in accordance with procedures to be determined in agreement with the Member State and Managing Authority concerned.
2.Following that examination the Commission may make comments to the Member State and to the Managing Authority, which will inform the Monitoring Committee thereof. The Member State shall inform the Commission of action taken in response to those comments.
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