Documents and links

Key documents and links on evaluation

• 2011: Report on the evaluation of the Union's finances based on the results achieved [191 KB]
  Annex [2 MB]
• 2010: Report on the evaluation of the Union's finances based on the results achieved [69 KB]
  Annex [20 KB]
• Communication "Smart Regulation in the European Union" (2010)
• Communication "Responding to Strategic Needs: Reinforcing the use of evaluation" [172 KB] (2007)
• Evaluation Standards – Annex to Communication "Responding to Strategic Needs: Reinforcing the use of evaluation" [106 KB] (2007)
• The Financial Regulation applicable to the EU General Budget (in particular article 27) and its implementing rules (in particular article 21) [2 MB]

Strategic guidance with reference to evaluation

• President's political guidelines [900 KB] (2009)
• Working methods of the Commission 2010-2014
• Commission Work Programme 2012
• Rules giving effect to the Rules of Procedure C(2010)1200
• Europe 2020 strategy

Guides

• Evaluating EU Activities: A practical guide for Commission services [6 MB] (2004)
• Quality Assessment Form [178 KB]
• Ex Ante Evaluation: A practical guide for preparing proposals for expenditure programmes [269 KB] (2001)
• Impact Assessment Guidelines
• Additional guides on evaluation published by Directorates-General:
  • Agriculture and Rural Development
  • Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid
  • Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
  • Information Society and Media
  • Internal Market and Services
  • Regional Policy

Studies and reviews

• The annual evaluation reviews ( 2000 [11 MB] , 2001 [484 KB] , 2002 [2 MB] , 2003 [2 MB] , 2004 [2 MB] , 2005 [2 MB] , 2006 [2 MB] , 2007 [2 MB] , 2008 [2 MB] , 2009 [2 MB] )
• The multi-annual evaluation overview [390 KB] (2002 – 2009)
• Use of evaluation results in the Commission (2005).
  • Synthesis report and annexes [2 MB]
  • Case study reports [5 MB]
  • Quality assessment of the study [84 KB]
• Study on the use of cost-effectiveness analysis in EC’s evaluations [2 MB] (2006)

Evaluation outside the European Commission

• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• European Evaluation Society
• National and Regional Societies and Networks
• World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)
• US Government Accountability Office (GAO)