Article 6
1. The Commission shall ensure that actions under this decision are subject to effective prior appraisal, monitoring and subsequent evaluation. 2. During implementation of projects and after their completion, the Commission shall evaluate the manner in which they have been carried out and the impact of their implementation in order to assess whether the original objectives have been achieved. In so doing, the Commission shall in particular investigate the extent to which the SMEs target group has benefited from the projects implemented. 3. The selected beneficiaries shall submit an annual report to the Commission. 4. The Commission shall submit to the European Parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, once the Committee referred to in Article 4 has examined them, an intermediate and a final evaluation report drawn up on the basis of an analysis made by independent experts, of the results obtained in implementing the actions referred to in Article 2. The Commission may present, on the basis of those results, proposals for adjusting the orientation of the programme. This analysis shall be submitted before any follow-up programme is approved.