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Key documents and links on evaluation
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Report on the evaluation of the Union's finances based on the results achieved
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Annex [20 KB] - Communication "Smart Regulation in the European Union" (2010)
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Communication "Responding to Strategic Needs: Reinforcing the use of evaluation" [172 KB] (2007)
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Evaluation Standards – Annex to Communication "Responding to Strategic Needs: Reinforcing the use of evaluation" [106 KB] (2007)
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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
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President's political guidelines [900 KB] (2009)
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Working methods of the Commission 2010-2014
- Commission Work Programme 2012
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Rules giving effect to the Rules of Procedure C(2010)1200
- Europe 2020 strategy
Guides
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Evaluating EU Activities: A practical guide for Commission services [6 MB] (2004)
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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]
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The multi-annual evaluation overview [390 KB] (2002 – 2009)
- Use of evaluation results in the Commission (2005).
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Synthesis report and annexes [2 MB]
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Case study reports [5 MB]
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Quality assessment of the study [84 KB]
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Synthesis report and annexes
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Study on the use of cost-effectiveness analysis in EC’s evaluations [2 MB] (2006)