Article 4 Amendments to Directive 2007/2/EC
Directive 2007/2/EC is amended as follows:
(1) Article 21 is amended as follows:
(a) in paragraph 2, the introductory sentence is replaced by the following:

‘2. No later than 31 March every year Member States shall update, if necessary, and publish a summary report. Those reports, which shall be made public by the Commission services assisted by the European Environment Agency, shall include summary descriptions of:’

;
(b) paragraph 3 is deleted;
(2) Article 23 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 23 The European Environment Agency shall publish and update annually the Union-wide overview on the basis of metadata and data made available by Member States through their network services in accordance with Article 21. The Union-wide overview shall include, as appropriate, indicators for outputs, results and impacts of this Directive, Union-wide overview maps and Member State overview reports.
The Commission shall, no later than 1 January 2022 and at least every five years thereafter, carry out an evaluation of this Directive, and of its implementation, and make it publicly available. That evaluation shall be based, inter alia, on the following elements:
(a) the experience gathered from the implementation of this Directive;
(b) the information collected by Member States in accordance with Article 21 and the Union-wide overviews compiled by the European Environment Agency;
(c) relevant scientific, analytical data;
(d) other information including relevant scientific, analytical data required on the basis of the Better regulation guidelines, in particular by relying on efficient and effective information management processes.’