Evaluation of RDPs 2007 > 2013
The legal basis for the Rural Development Programmes 2007-2013 is laid down within the documents listed on the DG Agriculture and Rural Development website:
https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/rurdev/leg/index_en.htm
Requirements and rules for evaluation
Two Regulations are of particular significance with respect to evaluation of Rural Development Programmes:
This Regulation describes, under its title VII (Monitoring and evaluation), the evaluation and reporting requirements, including the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (Article 80).
This Regulation specifies in section 4 (Monitoring and evaluation), Article 62(1) that "The common set of baseline, output, result, and impact indicators for the Rural Development Programmes are listed in Annex VIII to this Regulation. That list of indicators shall form the Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (CMEF) referred to in Article 80 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.
Organisational structure
The organisational structure of the European Network for Rural Development, i.e. also of the Evaluation Expert Network and its Evaluation Expert Committee, is set out in the above mentioned Commission Decision (Article 5). This Committee follows the work of the Evaluation Expert Network related to the exchange of expertise and establishment of best practice on evaluation of the rural development policy.