1999/745/EC: Commission Decision of 4 November 1999 concerning the grant of Community assistance for evaluation of Community structural interventions and modifying the relevant Commission Decision approving programming documents in the different Member States (with the exception of Objective 1 and 6 regions) in respect of Objective 5(a), covering the period between 1994 and 1999 (notified under document number C(1999) 3124) (Only the Spanish, Danish, German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic)

• Articles: 8

Article 1

Support from the EAGGF (Guidance Section) is granted in the form of technical assistance for the mid-term review and the ex-post evaluation for the period 1994 to 1999 relating to Community structural measures for improving the processing and marketing conditions for agricultural and forestry products in the Member States (with the exception of Objective 1 and 6 regions), in respect of Objective 5(a), as well as for the ex-post evaluation for the period 1991 to 1993, relating to the abovementioned Community structural measures.

Article 2

Aid from the EAGGF may not exceed 50 % of the eligible cost of the different evaluation actions.

Eligible expenditure in respect of the evaluation actions referred to in Article 1 are limited to additional expenditure, other than costs incurred by public administration and including salaries of national and local (statutory) civil servants employed on day-to-day management, monitoring and control tasks.

Article 3

Article 2 of the Commission Decisions referred to in the attached table (Annex I) is modified by adding the following subparagraph: "The ex-post evaluation of the period 1991 to 1993, the mid-term review and the ex-post evaluation of the period 1994 to 1999 are included for joint action."

Article 4

The maximum amounts indicated in Article 3 of the Commission Decisions referred to in the attached table (Annex I) are replaced by the amounts indicated in column J of the same table.

In the context of the modification of the relevant financial plans, the assistance from the EAGGF (Guidance Section) granted in respect of the evaluation actions mentioned under Article 1 of the present Commission Decision is attributed as a separate item in total to the year 1999 and added to the indicative expenditure expected in regions outside Objectives 1, 6 and 5(b).

Article 5

The financial plans annexed to the Commission Decisions referred to in the attached table (Annex I) are replaced by revised plans which take account of the amendments subject to the present Decision. Member States shall submit to the Commission these revised plans at the latest one month after the approval of the present Decision.

Article 6

The additional point on evaluation, which is set out in Annex II to the present Decision, is included in the programming documents which were approved and amended by the Commission Decisions referred to in the attached table (Annex I).

Article 7

This Decision is addressed to the following Member States:

The Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 4 November 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 374, 31.12.1988, p. 1.

(2) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 11.

(3) OJ L 142, 2.6.1997, p. 22.

(4) OJ L 91, 6.4.1990, p. 7.

(5) OJ L 233, 20.8.1998, p. 32.

(6) OJ L 170, 3.7.1990, p. 36.

(7) OJ L 290, 11.11.1994, p. 4.

(8) OJ L 162, 19.6.1997, p. 1.

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX I

Single Programming Documents (SPD) and Community Support Framework (CSF) approved for regions outside Objective 1 and 6 that will be modified by the inclusion of EAGGF funds for evaluation

(Council Regulations (EEC) No 867/90 and (EC) No 951/97)

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ANNEX II

EVALUATION

- Period covered

Evaluation operations covered by this programming document will cover:

- the ex-post evaluation of the 1991 to 1993 programming period;

- the mid-term evaluation after the third year of implementation of the present programme and

- the ex-post evaluation of the present programming period.

- Guidelines for evaluation

Apart from the conditions established in the present programme under the chapter on its implementation, namely in the point concerning principles and arrangements governing the monitoring, interim assessment and ex-post evaluation, Member States are required to base their evaluation on the guidelines set out in Commission Doc. VI/3778/97, Rev.1 and on probable future improvements of these guidelines (see Doc. VI/8879/99).